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Maplewood planner presents comprehensive-plan findings; housing, parking and floodplain flagged as top issues
Summary
PGAV planner Catherine Hamaker briefed the Maplewood City Council on baseline conditions, resident survey results and next steps in the city's comprehensive-plan update, highlighting housing affordability, parking patterns and floodplain constraints as priorities for scenario planning this spring.
Catherine Hamaker, an urban planner with PGAV, told the Maplewood City Council on Jan. 14 that the city's housing stock, parking and land-use patterns will be the focus of upcoming scenario planning for the comprehensive-plan update.
Hamaker said the city's average household size is smaller than neighboring communities and that much of Maplewood's housing stock is older and limited in scale. "The average household size is significantly smaller than neighboring communities," she said, and only 477 housing units have been built in Maplewood since 1980.
The presentation matters because the comprehensive plan guides long-term policy and zoning decisions. Hamaker and the steering committee will use the baseline analysis and public input to test alternative land-use scenarios this spring; the steering…
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