Planning Commission Agenda, 2025-06-12

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-06-12 is ๐Ÿ‘‰here๐Ÿ‘ˆ

Mobility Update, 2025-05

Cycling

The Network

Related to our previous coverage of the expanding north-end bicycle network, progress has been made related to the River East Trail.

Planning Commission Agenda, 2025-05-22

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-05-22 is ๐Ÿ‘‰here๐Ÿ‘ˆ

Planning Commission Agenda, 2025-05-08

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-05-08 is ๐Ÿ‘‰here๐Ÿ‘ˆ


Due to the amount of public engagement this meeting has been reduced to a single agenda item. Other projects have been bumped to a subsequent meeting; mostly to May 22nd.

Planning Commission Agenda, 2025-04-24

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-04-24 is ๐Ÿ‘‰here๐Ÿ‘ˆ


Text Amendments

There are two minor text amendments proposed to the zoning ordinance. Both would take what are currently exceptional cases and place them under administrative review.

Planning Commission Reports

Each year, or at least most years, the Planning Department creates a report summarizing the activity and highlights of the year, including zoning text amendments, in-progress plan development, and related information. Provided here is an index of the recent Planning Department reports, starting in 2019 so as to have a pre-pandemic baseline. No report for 2020 is available. Below are tables to easily see the years in comparison.

Strongtowns' Housing Policy

Strongtowns' finally has guidance on housing policy in the form of "The Housing Ready City toolkit (PDF)". It is six simple land-use reforms:

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