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City Planning seeks funds to speed Plan Cincinnati update, flags zoning code rewrite and staff capacity pressures
Summary
City Planning and Engagement highlighted Connected Communities gains and said it seeks funding to update Plan Cincinnati and later the zoning code; the department said zoning plan examiners are working above capacity and a career ladder was recently established.
Catherine Keough Juris, director of the Department of City Planning and Engagement, told the budget committee the department completed the citywide community engagement policy in September 2024, played a lead role on Connected Communities, and is seeking additional funding to accelerate the Plan Cincinnati update and a future zoning-code rewrite.
"Plan Cincinnati was adopted in 2012," Keough Juris said, and the department is asking for funding so an update does not take three years as the original plan process did. She said…
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