Council hears staff explanation of "map maintenance" rezones for Housing Vision parcels left out of July 23 rezone map

Councilors reviewed requests to correct zoning for a small number of parcels that, staff said, were resubdivided shortly before the city's rezone map was adopted on July 23 and therefore did not get reflected in the official map.

Kimon Jordan, director of Housing and Neighborhood Planning, and other planning staff told the council these are corrective actions to match surrounding parcels to R5 and that the cases arose because some parcels were resubdivided days before adoption of the new map.

"It just hasn't been reflected on the official map," staff said of the parcels. Staff described the work as "map maintenance" to clean up parcels that would otherwise have been zoned R5 if the resubdivision had been processed earlier.

Councilors asked whether the changes create spot-zoning concerns. Planning staff told the council the requests "will match other parcels around it" and therefore do not present spot-zoning problems.

Staff identified Housing Vision as the developer connected with at least one of the parcels; one councilor asked to confirm that the correction was part of the Housing Vision project rather than an unrelated new developer. Staff confirmed it is a corrective step for Housing Vision parcels and said more similar items would come before the council soon.

Several items were marked "ready to go" on the agenda and one was held for more discussion; the transcript records staff and council agreement to proceed with corrections to the official map rather than leaving the parcels in limbo.

The council did not record final ordinance readings or adoption votes in the portion of the transcript captured here.