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City officials advance downtown zoning overlay with inclusionary housing targets
Summary
Council sponsors presented a downtown zoning amendment that would add a downtown overlay and require minimum affordable-unit percentages in most downtown projects; sponsors said the change aims to expand housing near jobs and strengthen the tax base.
Speaker 5 outlined a multi-part downtown zoning amendment intended to update decades-old rules and add an inclusionary requirement for new downtown development. The sponsor said the proposal dates to earlier work "maybe since 2022" and aims to increase the tax base, lower the mill rate, expand city services and reduce commuting by allowing more housing near jobs.
The proposal includes three elements, Speaker 5 said: investments in downtown quality-of-life and…
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