Committee split on retail-parity paragraph; some want data updated or removed
Committee members disagreed about a consultant-sourced paragraph comparing Heath’s retail-acre-per-population ratio to a larger sample; some favored deletion or revision to avoid implying the city needs more retail development.
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Committee members reviewed a draft paragraph reporting a consultant’s metric that Heath has 0.09 retail acres per 100 persons versus an average of 0.5 acres per 100 persons. Several members said the sentence reads as a deficit and could be misused to pressure rezonings.
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