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Artists and residents urge council to remove Sanchez Arts Center from housing rezoning proposals
Summary
Members of the public and arts and cultural organizations urged council and planning commissioners not to rezone the Sanchez Arts Center campus for housing, saying the city should protect existing arts, performance and recreation facilities.
Speakers at public comment told the council that the city—s housing element rezoning list includes the Pacifica Center for the Arts campus (Sanchez Arts Center, Mildred Owen Concert Hall, Rotary Plaza and playing fields), and that community members are opposed to any rezoning that would jeopardize the existing cultural and recreational uses.
Cindy Abbott, executive director of Sanchez Arts Center, said nearly 300 pages of public comment letters had been submitted to…
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