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Resident urges Mount Vernon to adopt missing-middle housing policies in comp plan update
Summary
At public comment Kevin Moss urged city leaders to use the comprehensive plan update to adopt zoning and policies that allow compact, mixed housing to retain local spending and reduce vehicle miles traveled; council and staff noted upcoming community meetings on March 1.
Kevin Moss, a Mount Vernon resident, told the city council on Feb. 12 that updating the city’s housing policy in the comprehensive plan could retain local spending and reduce vehicle miles traveled.
“Every year, over a hundred million dollars earned and gone,” Moss told the council. He urged the city to adopt “smarter zoning that allows more people to live closer to where they work,” and to develop tangible draft policies the council, planning commission and community could discuss.
Moss described a roughly…
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