The council – which voted 4-1 with Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach dissenting – approved $40,000 for an outside consultant to help create an overlay zone: which can direct certain aspects of development within specific neighborhoods, such as increasing or decreasing residential density, though the council noted they lean toward using it for the former purpose.
Councilmember Kati Moulton called for the process to rezone the former Jacobs Junior High campus to begin. “Let this tiny little piece stand on a foundation of community input from the beginning,” she said.
The company that is currently in escrow to buy the former Jacobs Jr. High campus has created a website with some more information; though more questions than answers remain. It states the site will likely be redeveloped into a mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing.