REMARKS
Improving the land use process through integration of capital planning and zoning
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Raju Mann discusses potential improvements to the land use process, focusing on integrating capital planning with zoning and development frameworks. He emphasizes the importance of helping communities understand how public resources are being used to address neighborhood challenges while considering future development.
- Highlights the need for better integration of capital planning work with zoning and development policy
- Emphasizes the importance of interagency coordination in this process
- Suggests that showing communities how essential services and infrastructure support growth can improve the overall process
Raju Mann
0:36:05
Sure.
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Thanks for the question.
0:36:07
I think it's worth just noting that these are hard contentious conversations often.
0:36:11
And so, you know, the magic consensus we would all like to see is is often elusive.
0:36:17
I think that the one place where I'd maybe spend a few minutes focusing on today is is the relationship of the capital plan and kind of our development and zoning framework.
0:36:27
I do think that there is opportunity to help communities better understand how we're using our public resources in the form of our capital dollars.
0:36:36
To address challenges that neighborhood's face while also thinking about the zoning and development future of those neighborhoods.
0:36:44
And I think sometimes those conversations can happen on parallel tracks, but don't meet fully in a coherent way for communities to really understand kinds of open space investments or school investments or super investments that are being made that also help support growth.
0:36:57
So I think the integration of our capital planning work and our zoning and development policy work.
0:37:03
I think it's one place where I think we can, you know, can always do better, and that's something that the chair of the CPC is noted, and I think prior chairs of the CPC have known as well, that requires a lot of interagency coordination, which is just never easy given the number of actors involved in some of these processes.
0:37:20
But I'd say that's a place where we can grow, but we can also show communities that we are delivering essential services and infrastructure to help support growth.