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Residents urge mixed housing in PDR areas; business and PDR advocates warn of displacement
Summary
Neighborhood groups urged allowing controlled residential uses inside PDR areas to add "feet on the street" and support local businesses; industry and PDR advocates warned rezoning could create nonconforming businesses and displace longtime workers and small manufacturers.
A coalition of neighborhood residents and local advocates told the Planning Commission they support mixed uses in former industrial blocks and asked staff to preserve working businesses while enabling more housing that would bring daytime activity to PDR corridors.
Representatives of the Northeast Mission Residents Association — Kate Sophus, David Maltz and Jaime Guerrero — said their neighborhood currently contains a mixture of small production and craft businesses, artists and longtime residents and that allowing…
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