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Planning commission forwards Coral Street overlay to council, urges lower height cap
Summary
The commission recommended the Coral Street overlay and capacity mapping to City Council while asking council to consider reducing the maximum building height from eight stories to five amid concerns about concentrating shelter capacity and public safety.
The City of Santa Cruz Planning Commission voted Feb. 5 to forward the Coral Street overlay rezoning to City Council with a recommendation that council consider lowering the maximum building height from eight stories to five.
Commissioners and staff framed the overlay as a planning tool to demonstrate capacity required by state law, not as a directive to immediately build shelter beds. Clara Stanger, senior planner, told the commission the staff estimate for the overlay area is 424 shelter beds — a capacity figure used to meet the state’s point‑in‑time unsheltered housing planning…
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