Equity Goals
Measurements •
Quantify the increase to commercially zoned spaces compared to the current baseline through scenario planning. • Use scenario plans to inform policy that reserves a percentage of newly available
commercially zoned spaces for disadvantaged business owners.
LZ-2
Balance local uses with “destination uses” to encourage sense of belonging among local residents, including equity communities, who call the project area home.
• Identify primary residential needs of local residents, including equity communities, to inform policy on housing type and affordability. • Identify primary commercial needs of local residents, including equity communities, to inform policy on tenant type and location. • Identify and quantify neighborhood enclave hot spots to preserve or establish based on features known for neighborhood feel (e.g. parks with playgrounds, essential businesses, and similar) • Quantify current number of parcels used for residences to establish a baseline, and ensure existing parcels are not upzoned in ways that reduce housing inventory. • Use the baseline to assess how many parcels will be needed based on population growth, and the percentage of affordable units needed to meet demand. • Identify and quantify parcels that can be used for new development of a diversity of housing types, using scenario planning. • Identify and map rent burdened households at risk of displacement, to avoid surrounding these households with new developments (residential, commercial, and recreational) inconsistent with demographics. • Identify and map areas of sprawl, chronic vacancies, and underutilized land, highlighting where these gaps overlap with equity communities. • Assess characteristics of these opportunity areas to recommend the ratio of different land uses that would best serve the area (e.g. more housing, businesses and employers, essential resources, green space, and similar.) • Active participation in planning and/or moderating public engagement, providing information, visuals, framing of tradeoffs and similar. • Directly reference public input in the Master Plan.
LZ-3
Retention of current residents through development-without displacement-strategies that can offer additional inventory and stabilize cost of living.
LZ-4
Create connected land use that supports walkability, multimodal connectivity, and social experience for local residents, including equity communities, that call the project area home.
LZ-5
Seek and utilize representative public input on land use and zoning.
C-9
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