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Planning staff urges two-step approach for Link District ordinance; EDA to review draft and provide feedback
Summary
Dr. Rhonda Russell of the planning department summarized new recommendations for the Link (Innovation) District ordinance, presented design ambitions informed by a Harvard charette and a trip to Greenville, and proposed adopting current ordinance language now while developing design-specific amendments for later adoption.
Dr. Rhonda Russell, a planning department lead, presented the Planning Division’s recommendations for the Link District (formerly called the Innovation District) to the Economic Development Authority on Oct. 21.
Russell said the city had completed a comprehensive plan audit and that lessons from a Harvard Design School charette and a study trip to Greenville, South Carolina, motivated additional design recommendations. The staff’s current draft ordinance would encourage buildings pulled forward to the right-of-way, set a maximum building height of 100 feet and a density cap of 64 dwelling units per acre, emphasize ground-floor retail or service uses with residential or office above, and identify…
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