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City council annexes nine Allen Creek parcels, approves new city zoning to encourage housing
Summary
Grants Pass City Council voted unanimously on April 16 to annex nine parcels along Allen Creek Road into the city and to adopt new comprehensive plan and zoning designations meant to increase housing capacity on about 22.5 acres.
Grants Pass City Council voted unanimously April 16 to annex nine parcels along Allen Creek Road into the city limits and to amend comprehensive plan and zoning designations on the properties to allow higher-density housing than current county rules permit.
The annexation and accompanying zone-map change are intended to accelerate housing development on roughly 22.5 acres that now sit outside the city, Bradley Clark, a community development staff member, told the council. “This effort actually started more than three years ago,” Clark said, describing the city-funded planning and transportation work that preceded the applications.
Clark said the city paid for a required Oregon Department of…
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