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Committee amends industrial redevelopment rules, lowers landscape threshold to 60% and requires improvements at completion
Summary
After debate between industry representatives, planning staff and council members, the committee amended an industrial redevelopment bill to set a 60% renovation trigger for landscape requirements and require landscaping be in place at project completion; the amended bill passed 5-0.
The Transportation, Energy and Utilities Committee on Aug. 5 amended and approved a bill that changes when industrial properties must meet the city’s landscape requirements.
Bill Delaney of the Mayor’s Office described the bill as broadly positive but said two items needed attention: the threshold for triggering landscape requirements and the compliance time frame. “We think that 50% makes a lot more sense in terms of blight and encouraging…
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