The new measure would still sharply reduce the city’s 15 zoning categories, to five.
the original zoning overhaul plan, had said they wanted to help resolve those housing and economic problems by streamlining rules to encourage the construction of more dwellings.It drew an outcry from many opponents who said the changes were too dramatic and could permit developers to throw up apartment complexes next to neighborhoods consisting only of single-family homes.
“So you have to make these unique considerations for these special geographic features,” and that will lead once again to the need for several zoning categories, he said. Cross, a real estate broker, faced strong criticism from radio talk show hosts and other conservatives recently after recorded comments he’d made to a group of realtors became public, including suggesting that he was purchasing a 5-acre lot in Chugiak because it would soon be easier to develop there after the zoning code is overhauled.
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