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Tenants, advocates urge clearer ADU rules after zoning administrator’s discretionary-review rejections
Summary
Multiple tenants and tenant advocates told the Planning Commission that ADU conversions and some zoning administrator (ZA) determinations have left tenants uninvolved and without remedies, urging a joint hearing with the Rent Board and clearer DR/appeal procedures.
A string of public commenters at the Jan. 10 Planning Commission hearing told commissioners that the department’s handling of accessory dwelling unit (ADU) conversions and discretionary review (DR) requests had left tenants vulnerable and without clear procedural safeguards.
Jennifer Feber described a local case involving 129540 Seventh Avenue in which a tenant’s DR was rejected and said the process had been opaque. "It seems like this one man has just inserted himself into the process in a very unaccountable way and very dictatorial,…
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