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Assembly staff backs ordinance allowing ground‑floor residential in parts of downtown under conditional use process
Summary
Assembly staff presented an ordinance to allow residential uses on the ground floor in the Central Business District as a conditional use to implement the downtown comprehensive plan’s urban‑core and mixed‑use residential goals.
An ordinance to permit residential uses on ground floors in the Central Business District as a conditional use was presented to the assembly on June 17 as an implementation step for the borough’s downtown plan.
Callan Spellman of the Community Planning Department explained the change would remove the existing absolute prohibition on ground‑floor residences in the Central Business District and make such uses eligible for a conditional use permit. The planning commission unanimously recommended approval at a May 27…
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