Residents question ADU survey design and notice during public comment

Aug 10, 2026

Public commenters raised procedural and substantive concerns during the public comment period: one resident with zoning experience called a diagram incorrect and urged a corrected illustration; another resident criticized the ADU survey's low participation (1.17%) and questioned changing residential zoning citywide on that basis.

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Several residents addressed the commission during public comment, raising procedural questions about notice and technical concerns about ordinance illustrations. Jack Sanderson (speaker 2), a resident who described experience as a zoning administrator and forensic engineer, said he had long raised concerns that a diagram in the ordinance conflicted with the text and that an inaccurate illustration can mislead users; he said he had "emailed the city manager a very lengthy explanation as to why that diagram was incorrect."

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