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Council introduces zoning-code changes and updates to inclusionary housing rules
Summary
The council introduced and approved an ordinance to amend the zoning code to streamline development review, set minimum densities for mixed-use housing and update the city’s below-market-rate (BMR) program, and it asked staff to study jobs-to-housing ratios in a future zoning update.
San Mateo — The City Council voted 5–0 on June 16 to introduce an ordinance that amends zoning rules to implement parts of the 2040 General Plan and to update the city’s below-market-rate (BMR) housing program.
Principal planner Steve Golden told the council the packet combines three categories of changes: streamlining the development-review process (including an appeals process for completeness determinations and extending the period for plan approvals), establishing minimum residential densities for mixed-use…
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