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Woodside council rezones High Road and adopts design standards despite neighborhood concerns
Summary
After hours of public comment, the Woodside Town Council voted 4—1 (one recusal) July 30 to change the High Road parcel from open space to residential, introduce multifamily zoning tied to site-specific objective design standards, and include a statement directing future town-owned units to be owner-occupied. Residents raised safety, pipeline and traffic concerns.
The Woodside Town Council on July 30 voted to change the general plan designation for the town-owned High Road parcel from open space to residential and to advance associated zoning and objective design standards that would allow multifamily housing on the site. The council also added a nonregulatory statement of owner intent that future housing developed on the town parcel should be owner-occupied.
Council members said the votes were driven in part by a late-day letter from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) noting that the town's adopted housing element "meets…
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