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From:Thomas Brown <tbrownii@icloud.com>
Sent:Sunday, December 3, 2023 3:24 PM
To:Wiederkehr, Mike; Moore, Sarah; Bunch, Sarah; Berna, Scott; D'Andre Jones; Turk,
Teresa; Hertzberg, Holly
Cc:Curth, Jonathan; CityClerk
Subject:71B CORRIDOR REGULATING PLAN (SUPPORT AFFIRMATION): SRF 2023-1318
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Council Members
The 71B Corridor contains 8 Tier Centers as depicted in the City’s Growth Concept Map. With the
successful implementation of the 71B Corridor Plan a significant share of the City’s future businesses and population
can be supported and connected in a liner series of mixed-use, pedestrian oriented, live, work and play urban
environments that can be built at a density that will support Attainable Housing and Transit.
To accomplish these Planning Goals, one of the most important Plan Implementation Activities the City can undertake is
the Rezoning of the 71B Transit Corridor and the Tier Centers located within its boundaries.
I support this important Community Development effort. The current implementation schedule for the adopted 71B
Corridor Plan identifies Phase I of the Regulation Plan to be completed by 2025. This schedule suggests that the
Rezoning of the Corridor should already be in progress.
Therefore, I am requesting the City Council to approve the Resolution to study and rezone the 71B Corridor Plan Area as
recommended by CITY STAFF and reaffirm their support for implementing the 71B Corridor regulation strategy.
I would like to offer one additional suggestion. Phase the Rezoning effort to first up-zone all the existing C-2 and R-O
zoned properties in the 71B Corridor and its Tier Centers to encourage mixed-use, pedestrian and residentially oriented
developments.
This strategy would start the rezoning effort with a regulatory action that should have the greatest impact on
accomplishing our Planning Goals while using a rezoning approach that offers the least potential controversy to the
parcel owners and residents.
Thomas Brown
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