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Staff outlines timeline and engagement plan to implement 2024 Community Master Plan and rewrite zoning ordinance
Summary
Planning staff provided a progress update on implementing the 2024 Community Master Plan and previewed a multi-phase zoning ordinance rewrite, including a story map, dashboard, technical advisory committee, consultant solicitation, and a public "roadshow" to explain zoning changes.
Kristen, a city planning staff member, presented an update Feb. 13 to the Grand Rapids City Planning Commission on progress implementing the 2024 Community Master Plan and on plans to rewrite the zoning ordinance to align local law with the plan's recommendations.
Staff said they have published a story map and chapter videos to make the master plan more accessible and are developing an online dashboard to track implementation actions and improve transparency. The zoning ordinance rewrite is framed as a multi-phase effort: an initial phase to form a technical advisory committee and issue a request for proposals for a consultant; a second phase, with consultant support, to draft and test ordinance language and to engage technical stakeholders and the public on specific code provisions; and a target timeframe to pursue…
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