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Planning staff outlines 'hybrid PDR' use and links zoning to workforce incentives
Summary
Staff presented a new 'hybrid PDR' land use and proposed tying it to Enterprise Zone tax credits and workforce programs; they proposed monitoring, a five‑year review and fee incentives or partial forgiveness tied to hiring goals.
Planning staff and the Mayor’s Office on July 31 laid out a multi-part proposal to preserve production, distribution and repair (PDR) jobs while allowing adaptive reuse and limited office uses in the Eastern Neighborhoods.
The staff proposal creates a new land use, called “hybrid PDR,” defined as a building with both office and PDR functions where at least one‑third of the usable area is PDR and at least one‑third is office; the remaining third may be other nonresidential use. Hybrid PDR would be allowed as‑of‑right in PDR‑1 districts for three‑story (pre‑1950) buildings and in new construction subject to one‑to‑one replacement of any displaced PDR.
The Mayor’s Office described a workforce linkage: businesses in hybrid…
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