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Chandler planning panel backs duplex as resident warns of gentrification
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved consent agenda items including a duplex proposal in Pueblo Viejo after a resident said the building "towers over everything." Commissioners debated allowing up to 50% lot coverage and directed staff to monitor massing; the item is a recommendation to City Council on June 12.
The Chandler Planning and Zoning Commission approved its consent agenda, including a proposal for a duplex in the Pueblo Viejo neighborhood, after resident Juliet Spence told the panel the new building "towers over everything" and raised concerns about gentrification.
Spence, who gave her address as 220 South Dakota Street, Chandler, said she moved to Downtown Chandler to be part of a historic neighborhood and that recent development has "begun to change recently" and could be "the first stage of gentrification of all neighborhoods, Pueblo Viejo." Her remarks came during the public-comment portion of the commission's hearing on a consent-item duplex proposal.
The commission and staff discussed lot-coverage limits for…
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