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Council accepts housing element progress report and directs staff to draft updates to downtown zoning (GB 17.4)
Summary
The council approved the annual housing element progress report showing 94 of 135 units built in the current cycle and directed staff to begin a months-long ordinance amendment process to clarify the General Business District (section 17.4) and review fees and ground-floor retail rules.
The Nevada City Council accepted the city's 2025 housing element annual progress report and gave staff direction to prepare amendments to the General Business District zoning code (section 17.4) after public comment about downtown retail and ordinance fees.
City planner Jessica Hankins summarized the report: the city is in the sixth-cycle housing element covering 2019–2027, with an allocation of 135 units (52 lower-income). "Over the past previous five years, we've actually constructed 94 housing units out of the…
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