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Council holds visioning workshop on land‑development tools; staff asked to scope top priorities
Summary
Planning staff opened a visioning discussion and reviewed five potential LDR amendments — workforce housing bonus adjustments, third‑story stepbacks, short‑term‑rental restrictions, basement rules, and design‑guideline updates — while councilors and the public debated tradeoffs between downtown character, housing and commercial space preservation.
Planning Director Paul Anthony briefed the council on a visioning workshop March 16 that sought local priorities for changes to land‑development regulations. "Today is really more of a visioning session," Anthony said, listing five areas staff wanted council feedback on: adjustments to the 2‑for‑1 workforce housing bonus, third‑story stepbacks, limits or caps on short‑term rentals, basement regulation changes and a comprehensive design‑guideline update planned for…
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