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Speakers and commissioners press planning staff for broader outreach and housing-preservation fixes
Summary
Public commenters and several commissioners urged the Planning Department to expand outreach, revisit demolition calculations that critics say enable speculation, and begin updates to the open-space element and priority conservation areas required under state law.
Public commenters at the March 21 Planning Commission hearing urged more robust outreach for major rezonings and changes to demolition calculations that they say facilitate speculation and loss of existing housing in priority equity geographies.
Georgia Shudish told commissioners that current demolition calculations under section 3.17 allow speculation to proceed and that the commission "has the legislative authority" to adjust the demo count to protect…
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