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Planners debate pedestrian‑connection code rewrite and its link to housing affordability
Summary
A proposed simplification of pedestrian‑connection requirements (narrower applicability, fewer prescriptive design mandates, 4‑foot minimum sidewalks) drew questions from commissioners who asked staff for metrics showing how the changes would promote affordable or workforce housing.
City staff and a housing‑affordability task force presented a draft rewrite of the city's pedestrian‑connection standards intended to be less prescriptive and more flexible than current code.
"Each nonindustrial zone development with one or more buildings...shall provide reasonable pedestrian connections," Speaker 6 summarized, describing the draft's narrower scope (exempts industrial zones and single‑family/duplex dwellings), a reduced…
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