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City council directs staff to seek consultant and environmental review for industrial, transit and corridor planning; vote 4-1
Summary
The Southgate City Council voted 4–1 to direct staff to issue an RFP for a planning and environmental consultant to study changes to industrial (warehousing) rules, plan land use near two future Metro transit centers and recommend commercial-corridor updates. Staff estimated the combined planning and environmental work at about $500,000–$750,000.
The Southgate City Council voted 4–1 on Jan. 28 to authorize staff to solicit proposals from planning and environmental consultants to study possible changes to industrial zoning, plan improvements around two Metro transit centers and propose updates to commercial corridors.
City planning staff said the work would include ordinance research, community outreach, traffic and air-quality analysis and a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) document (either a mitigated negative declaration or an environmental impact report) so the city could consider any changes consistently across the jurisdiction.
Planning Manager John Signals told the council that consultants’ cost estimates for the work…
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