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Staff proposes nonconforming-use protections and a new large-project review for Eastern Neighborhoods
Summary
Planning Department staff told commissioners the Eastern Neighborhoods NCU policy will generally allow existing nonconforming uses to continue in perpetuity, permit some residential expansions while barring new dwellings in PDR districts, and create a new Section 309.2 large-project review with clear thresholds for mandatory commission review.
In a technical presentation on June 19 Planning Department staff laid out both a revised approach to lawful nonconforming uses (NCUs) in the Eastern Neighborhoods and a new large-project authorization process intended to give clearer expectations to applicants and neighbors.
Dan Sider, describing the scope of the issue, said many existing buildings and uses in the Eastern neighborhoods are legally nonconforming because most of the city's…
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