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Commissioners press for clearer metrics, incentives to reach development-area density goals
Summary
Members emphasized that the draft plan must include specific, measurable strategies to achieve higher density in development areas — including clearer activity‑center boundaries, rezoning options, incentives for missing‑middle housing and tracking metrics tied to the big moves.
Commissioners and staff spent considerable time on Aug. 26 discussing how the draft plan translates future‑land‑use categories and the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) into actual development outcomes inside the county’s development areas.
Several commissioners said the 2015 plan’s density targets were not achieved and asked how AC44 will correct that. Commissioners recommended stronger, concrete tools in the plan to encourage density inside development areas: examples cited included targeted rezoning of specific parcels (rather than relying only on applicants to seek…
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