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Council Pauses Talk of Amortizing 6th Street Businesses, Launches Ad Hoc Process with Chamber and Downtown Owners
Summary
After heated testimony from dozens of 6th Street business owners and residents, the council voted unanimously to pause consideration of an amortization ordinance and to form a six‑month ad hoc working group (including the Chamber and downtown businesses) to explore revitalization tools and outreach.
Councilmembers heard a lengthy staff presentation on amortization — a zoning tool that sets a predictable timeline for phasing out nonconforming uses — and an intense public response from business owners, employees and longtime residents who warned that an amortization policy would threaten multi‑generation livelihoods along the 6th Street corridor.
Planning staff described amortization as one option to help the downtown evolve by phasing out targeted nonconforming uses over time, noting the tool’s prior uses in other California cities for…
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