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La Center Council adopts downtown and Timon Landing subarea plans after two-year process, 3-2
Summary
The La Center City Council on June 25 adopted ordinance 2025-03 to approve downtown and Timon Landing subarea plans, a planned-action environmental review and associated comprehensive-plan and code updates, passing the ordinance on a 3-2 roll-call vote.
The La Center City Council on June 25 adopted ordinance 2025-03 to approve a pair of subarea plans for downtown and Timon Landing, a planned-action environmental review that establishes mitigation for future projects, and accompanying comprehensive-plan and municipal-code amendments. The ordinance passed on a 3-2 roll-call vote (Fox: yes; Casper: yes; Boyle: no; Leija: yes; Cervini: no).
The ordinance updates the city—s comprehensive-plan map and development regulations to guide a 20-year buildout in the two subareas and creates new zoning tools and overlays intended to encourage mixed-use development, pedestrian orientation and infrastructure investments. City consultant Marty Snell, senior planner with WSP, described the effort as a planning tool rather than a mandate on private property owners: “This plan is not going to be the status quo…What this plan is, is a tool to think ahead,” he said, adding the documents aim to preserve La Center—s character while expanding the tax base and identifying infrastructure needs.
Nut graf: The adopted package includes a planned action (an EIS-level review completed for the subareas) meant to…
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