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City officials: zoning steers development but can’t pick individual retailers
Summary
Speakers said the city can set zoning and recruit preferred businesses but lacks authority to bar specific private tenants; staff have worked with developer Elevated for about three and a half years to advance a planned commercial center.
Speaker 1 said the city cannot decide which private businesses ultimately locate in a commercial development, arguing officials can shape the general plan and commercial zoning but not prohibit specific end users.
"But as far as us saying that bank can't go there, that dentist office cannot go there, the city does not have the authority or the ability to be able to do that," Speaker 1 said.
The point matters because…
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