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The council – which voted 4-1 with Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach dissenting – approved $40,000 for an outside consultant to help create an overlay zone: which can direct certain aspects of development within specific neighborhoods, such as increasing or decreasing residential density, though the council noted they lean toward using it for the former purpose.
In granting the demurrer filed by the city, Judge Timothy Canning ruled that the city, in its regular practice of publicly posting their agendas six days in advance of the meeting, would have turned their regular Oct. 3 meeting into a special meeting had they placed the Housing for All initiative after posting their agenda.
The company that is currently in escrow to buy the former Jacobs Jr. High campus has created a website with some more information; though more questions than answers remain. It states the site will likely be redeveloped into a mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing.