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Commission reviews economic, transportation and housing chapters of comprehensive plan; housing assessment shows need for 1,300–2,000 new households by 2035
Summary
MSA Professional Services presented the comprehensive plan’s second‑set chapters and a housing assessment showing a need for roughly 1,300–2,000 additional households by 2035; commissioners directed staff to remove explicit encouragement of multifamily and to reword a passage supporting regional transit.
MSA Professional Services lead planner Brian Wheatonfield presented the Planning Commission with the second set of chapters for the Village’s comprehensive plan update on April 8, including economic development, transportation, intergovernmental cooperation and housing, plus a 14‑page housing assessment appended to the draft plan.
Wheatonfield said the updated chapters carried forward goals from the 2015 plan while adding strategies reflecting recent outreach: maintain and diversify the local economy, use tax increment financing where appropriate to spur redevelopment, expand bike/ped connections as a recreational and tourist draw and routinely evaluate downtown parking needs. He described the housing assessment as a market‑focused appendix that…
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