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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.
The council voted three to one – with Councilmember Scott Bauer recused and Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach dissenting – to approve a letter arguing that, if passed, Measure A will severely damage the financial viability of local legal cannabis cultivation.
The current corp yard at 945 W. 14th Street, is within a tsunami zone and has aged well beyond current structural standards – the newest of the buildings was completed in the 1980s, with other buildings seeing use since the 1950s – according to city staff. The city moved forward with the purchase, noting some construction impacts will be difficult to avoid – namely noise – but they will try and minimize disruptions to funerals and gatherings on the rest of the cemetery.