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Commission weighs ground‑floor parking incentives, ceiling-height tradeoffs for downtown projects
Summary
Planning staff presented options to allow limited ground-floor parking in exchange for bonuses (additional floor area or modest height increases) and suggested dedicating some saved surface area to open/quasi-public space; commissioners asked staff to refine numbers and precedents for a future meeting.
Planning staff presented an analysis on April 22 showing how dedicating a portion of downtown ground-floor footprints to parking could help increase on-site spaces while preserving the commercial street front. Staff used three sample footprints (150 North Main, 172 West 14 Mile and 100–136 Gardner) and estimated roughly 288…
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