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Council approves zoning approach to meet housing‑element site inventory; asks staff to study small‑business protections
Summary
The City Council voted to direct staff to prepare zoning and General Plan amendments that bring the city’s zoning into consistency with the adopted housing‑element site inventory while retaining commercial allowances on existing commercial corridors.
The City Council voted Monday to direct staff to prepare zoning and General Plan amendments to implement Housing Element Program 1.1(g), aligning land‑use designations with the city’s site inventory for the current housing cycle.
Staff presented a parcel‑by‑parcel approach that keeps commercial uses allowed where they exist today and applies targeted residential densities to identified opportunity sites. Under staff recommendations: mixed‑use village or neighborhood mixed‑use designations would apply to existing commercial corridors (Evandale/Fairchild, Miramonte/Cuesta and Calderon areas) so new development could include ground‑floor commercial…
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