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Old Posted Mar 5, 2013, 6:28 AM
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Actually there are a lot of projects that don't get commission review--as part of the switch a few years back from Design Review & Preservation Board to separate Design and Preservation Commissions, more decisions were moved to director or staff level. When Design Review was combined with Planning to create the Planning & Design Commission, more decisions were moved from commission level to staff or director level. And the new zoning code will move even more projects to below the threshold requiring commission review. So only the most major projects will go to commission review--and those have been on an uptick, after a couple of years when half the meetings would be cancelled because there weren't enough commission-level projects.

It seems like there are a lot of things going on right now--just not a lot of the high-rise, high-profile variety that gets the most attention here. Projects that stalled because of the recession have restarted, major policy changes are taking place (like the aforementioned zoning code changes, and parking regulation changes) and there is more pedestrian/bike activity, more often, than I have seen in the central city in the past 20 years. Heck, if we keep this up we'll be well on our way to getting back to the central city population we had in 1950!
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