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Planning staff say combined methods meet RHNA; meeting erupts in broad public comment and amendment fights
Summary
Planning staff presented the Family Zoning Plan's capacity analysis and SB 79 implications; the hearing drew dozens of public speakers split between support for zoning to build homes and fears of displacement and historic loss. The committee adopted a handful of targeted amendments and continued the package for more review on Dec. 1.
On Nov. 17 the Land Use & Transportation Committee heard a lengthy presentation from Planning Department staff and the mayor's office on the Family Zoning Plan and related ordinances (general-plan amendments, zoning-map changes and the local housing-choice program). Deputy Director Joshua Switsky outlined three methods the city used to estimate realistic residential capacity: a citywide zoning-buffer analysis, a "soft-sites" inventory of specific candidate parcels, and an economic-feasibility model (UrbanSim). Those methods together, staff said, support meeting the city's rezoning target to address the RHNA shortfall of roughly 36,200 units.
Switsky told the committee that HCD reviewed the combined methods and…
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