QUESTION
962 Pacific Street Rezoning: Question Regarding Why Applicant is Trying to Get Ahead of Community Planning
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In this exchange, a council member states that the council has put in a lot of effort and time preparing a comprehensive plan. He asks why the application is trying to get ahead of this community planning effort.
Speaker 1
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Thank you so much.
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Richard, I didn't recognize you.
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I didn't look today.
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Let me check.
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It's gonna ask a few questions.
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Counseling my boss had to step out to press conference that we're having right now.
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So That's why she can be able I'm gonna ask some questions.
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Council has put in a lot of effort and time and preparing a comprehensive plan.
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For this neighborhood and local community is very invested in in the finalizing this plan.
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Given how far along this comprehensive plan and effort has progressed and that DCP has publicly stated it intends on certifying its proposal for a comprehensive plan by this spring, why are you still trying to get ahead of this community planning effort?
Speaker 4
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So as I said before, we have an applicant here who's been around for over 4 years.
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And I think that if the applicant was merely concerned with getting a building up and and didn't have deeper concerns, I think, that we wouldn't even be here anymore.
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But frankly, given the applicant's longstanding history in the area, which dates back decades.
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His family has been here for decades.
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And the fact that There is a lag between when the rezoning will be approved, as we've demonstrated, both in Guyana and other rezoning.
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And when these units will be produced, I think that they feel that in fairness, both in themselves as well as to those committee or really community members who don't necessarily have an opportunity to live in the district and don't have an opportunity to necessarily even participate in the process.
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That's why they are pushing so hard to do this.
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I don't think of it as cunning in line, I think is the wrong way to to categorize an applicant who has really been very patient and has been attentive to what's been sought by the community in terms of the AMO plan.
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And at the end of the day, what would really be the harm here?
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The EMA plan, the importance of having that established was to see what would be allowed.
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And what would be created.
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And so the building here that would be created is a smaller building, is a building which requires m crown uses as desired by the community and is a building which produces in as far as the margins more units and affordability than AMO.
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So This is not something where we are putting in a zoning district, which came out of nowhere and makes no sense as the committee has seen 25 of the surrounding 26 lots are already zoned r 7a.
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This is a vetted, approved zoning district, and so Yes, AMUP is not finally approved, but we are well within their guidelines.
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And the difference here is the opportunity to create those units sooner rather than later.
