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Committee amends mayor's housing streamlining bill, forwards amended file to Board and duplicates for further changes
Summary
After extensive public comment and multiple amendments, the Land Use Committee adopted a set of changes to the mayor's constraints-reduction streamlining ordinance, forwarded a pared-down amended file to the full Board without recommendation, and duplicated the file for additional substantive amendments to be returned on Dec. 12, 2023.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee grappled with a sweeping package of planning-code changes intended to accelerate housing production on Dec. 4, 2023, and adopted a complex sequence of amendments and procedural steps.
The ordinance covers a broad range of reforms: exemptions from notice and review (Section 3.11) and conditional-use procedures (Section 3.17) in areas outside priority equity geographies; removing conditional-use requirements for many housing projects (including projects building to height limits or adding units in lower-density districts); changes to setbacks, frontage, minimum lot sizes and open-space requirements; expanded eligibility for density exceptions and housing-opportunity programs; fee exemptions for certain…
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