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Subcommittee debates urban design language: context sensitivity, downtown role and prescriptive standards
Summary
Members and staff discussed proposed edits to the urban design portion of the comprehensive plan, including consolidating goals, adding context-sensitive policies, clarifying downtown's special role, and avoiding overly prescriptive design standards.
Planner Kevin Treibot told the subcommittee the urban design material is focused on the "built environment in the future" while historic preservation addresses existing resources. Staff consolidated two similar historic-preservation goals and reorganized several policies to improve flow. Treibot said some downtown-focused policies appear misplaced in the chapter and staff recommended moving them to chapters on land use, transportation or economic development.
Commissioners pressed staff on wording that they said could be used to block change.…
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