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Committee approves small land-use items: Century City extension, fund transfer and temporary community garden; one reappointment held
Summary
The committee recommended a five-year extension and minor updates to the Century City redevelopment plan, authorized a planning-fund transfer for administrative work, approved a temporary community garden at 711 E. Kilbourn Avenue for up to five years, and held a historic-preservation commission reappointment to the call of the chair.
The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee handled several routine but substantive administrative items: a five-year extension and housekeeping amendment for the North 30 Fifth Street/West Capitol Drive (Century City) redevelopment plan, a capital planning transfer to fund comprehensive planning and GIS work, and a substitute ordinance permitting a temporary community garden at 711 E. Kilbourn Avenue as an interim use for up to five years.
Department of City Development staff (Benji Tim and Tanya Fonseca) told the committee the Century City amendment updates the plan's land-use table to align with current zoning, preserves prior prohibitions (for example, against slaughterhouses and refineries), and adds clarity on conditional and prohibited uses. The amendment extends the redevelopment plan's expiration by five years to allow staff to continue community engagement and to give projects more time to advance; the City Plan Commission had recommended approval.
The committee approved a routine transfer from the Capital Improvements Advanced Planning Fund to a subaccount for comprehensive planning, GIS mapping and administrative activities. Staff explained the transfer would support graduate planning interns, data subscriptions and meeting expenses.
For the site at 711 E. Kilbourn Avenue, Newland Enterprises proposed raised planter beds and modest signage on a currently vacant gravel lot; the City Plan Commission had unanimously recommended approval. Newland said the garden would not be fenced initially but could add perimeter planting, and would be maintained by the owner while preserving the site's potential for future development. The ordinance allows the garden as an interim use for five years or until development proceeds.
On a personnel item, the committee held file 02/50176, the mayor's reappointment of Nicholas Hans Robinson to the Historic Preservation Commission, to the call of the chair after members noted Robinson's attendance record (26 of 43 meetings attended).
