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Commission receives staff study session on housing element rezoning and "Mixed Use Overlay" approach; scoping meeting set Dec. 10
Summary
Staff and consultants outlined a plan to apply a Mixed Use Overlay District to Measure K sites, use SB 131 CEQA exemptions where possible, and pursue rezonings to meet the RHNA; commissioners and public urged clearer outreach and timing for the EIR scoping process.
City staff and outside consultants presented the Planning Commission on Monday with the city's approach to rezoning Measure K and housing element sites under a draft "Mixed Use Overlay District" (MUOD) to meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) and to implement programs in the adopted housing element.
Senior planner Michelle Halligan described the effort as the city's pathway to "address housing needs and obtain housing element certification from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)." Consultants from Dudek (project manager Kathy Tang Saez and planner Elizabeth Dixon) walked commissioners through a two‑bucket strategy: rezoning Measure K sites with a clean, consolidated MUOD and implementing zoning…
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