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Council debates expanding mixed-use housing and Booth Kelly zoning changes in broad housing-code update
Summary
Staff proposed allowing mixed‑use housing in more commercial districts, set a 20-unit-per-acre minimum in some mixed-use residential areas, and recommended a new Mixed Use Employment district for Booth Kelly; councilors raised concerns about industrial adjacency, discretionary permits for heavy manufacturing and preserving millrace policies.
Springfield — City planners and outside consultants presented a comprehensive set of proposed zoning updates intended to increase housing options and implement the city’s Climate Friendly Areas (CFA) overlay, prompting extended council debate over the trade-offs between housing capacity and industrial land protection.
Jamon Kimall of Cascadia Partners said the work aims to ‘‘allow housing in a mixed use development in more locations’’ and listed four objectives including greater mixed‑use allowances in existing commercial districts, more flexibility for commercial space in mixed‑use projects, and incentives for higher‑density housing.
A central proposal would permit mixed‑use housing in community commercial corridors such as Main Street / South A…
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