This afternoon the City Council passed into law the rezone of the Uptown Urban Center that activates MHA affordable-housing requirements.
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Uptown MHA rezone moves out of committee
After five meetings and a contentious public hearing last week, the Planning, Land Use and Zoning Committee passed an amended MHA rezone for the Uptown urban center out of committee today.
Continue readingJohnson drops controversial amendment to Uptown MHA rezone (UPDATED)
(updated below) After a long and contentious public hearing last week. Council member Rob Johnson has decided to withdraw one of two controversial amendments to the proposed MHA upzone of the Uptown Urban Center.
Continue readingThe Council is holding a public hearing tonight. This one matters.
The Council’s Planning, Land Use and Zoning Committee is holding a public hearing tonight on two issues: the proposed MHA rezone of the Uptown urban center, and some potential changes to the way that design reviews are done. Many of the Council’s public hearings are perfunctory: the Council members already have a good idea how they plan to vote, and the most that commenters can hope for are to get some minor tweaks to the legislation. But as of last Friday when the PLUZ committee met to discuss the two topics, there are some big open issues that the Council …
Continue readingCouncil starts to weigh in on OVG Key Arena plan
Next Monday, the Council’s Select Committee on Civic Arenas will meet to have its first discussion of OVG’s selected proposal for renovating Key Arena while the Mayor’s staff is negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding on how to move forward.
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