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From YouTube: Pittsburgh City Council Public Hearing - 9/14/22
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Bill #2022-0592: Zoning, New Base Districts & Changes
A
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
to
pittsburg
city
council's
public
hearing
for
today,
wednesday
september,
4th
2022
as
it
relates
to
bill
0592.
So
to
start
the
public
hearing,
I
am
councilman
krauss.
I
will
be
chairing
today,
we'll
be
joined
by
deputy
director
dash
if
you're
welcome
as
you're
comfortable
to
come
to
the
table.
We
are
also
joined
by
councilwoman
strasberger,
our
new
newly
appointed
city
clerk
kim
clark,
and
with
that,
madam
clerk,
may
we
begin
with
reading
the
purpose
of
the
bill.
A
C
C
A
Hi
corey
welcome
nice
to
see
you
even
though
it's
virtual,
it's
good,
so
deputy
director
dash,
you
have
a
presentation.
C
So,
while
kate's
bringing
that
up,
I
mean
the
the
reason
that
we
wanted
to
be
able
to.
You
know
we
want
to
be
able
to
walk
through
the
entirety
of
the
bill.
Bill
is
creating.
You
know,
as
the
clerk
said
three
new
bases,
zoning
districts
and
applying
them
in
oakland.
This
is
related
to
the
work.
If
we
go
to
the
next
slide
of
the
oakland
plan,
which
is
a
you
know,
two
and
a
half
year
effort
that
was
I'm
sorry
councilman.
A
C
That
is
correct
and
so
the
the
oakland
plan,
as
you
know,
the
planning
process
is
on
the
screen.
Here
was
a
roughly
two
and
a
half
year
planning
process
which
did
conclude
with
the
planning
commission
adopting
the
oakland
plan.
You
know
you
know
at
the
same
time
they
did
hear
these
related
zoning
amendments
and
we'll
talk
through
the
relation
of
the
plan
to
these
zoning
amendments.
But
the
zoning
amendments
you
know
are,
you
know,
an
implementation
action
of
the
oakland
plan
that
we're
bringing
to
city
council.
C
You
know
for
their,
you
know
for
their
consideration
and
hopefully
approval.
So
if
we
go
to
the
next
slide,
you
know,
as
we
have
led
up
to
you
know
where
we
are
with
you
all
today.
There
have
been
both
engagement
and
public
comment
on
the
plan
and
the
zoning
after
they
were
released.
So
we
did
have
a
two-month
public
comment
process
that
occurred
both
on
this
first
phase
of
the
zoning
amendments
before
city
council
for
consideration,
as
well
as
the
oakland
plan,
which
was
ultimately
adopted
by
the
planning
commission.
C
C
You
know
community
members,
you
know
between
stephanie
joy
everett
and
I
who
was
working
as
the
neighborhood
planner
to
conclude
the
plan,
and
you
know
in
this
period
of
time
I
think
we
had
between
55
and
60
individual
meetings
with
with
stakeholders,
in
addition
to
the
online
engagement
that
happened
through
the
engage
pgh
platform
and
the
emails
and
letters
that
we've
received
and
that
you
all
have
continued
to
receive.
If
we
go
to
the
next
slide,
just
what
that
means
by
the
numbers
we
did
receive
in
that
public
comment
period.
C
150
public
comments
that
were
specifically
on
the
zoning
proposals
that
are
coming
to
you
all.
You
know
for
consideration,
and
you
know,
with
the
next
few
slides,
we'll
just
walk
through
the
land
use
strategy
and
in
the
plan
and
how
that
relates
to
the
zoning
amendments
that
we're
bringing
forward.
You
know.
C
So
one
of
the
pieces
of
the
oakland
plan
was
a
look
at
the
land
uses
in
oakland,
and
so
you
know
looking
at
you
know
not
only
you
know
the
land
uses
as
they
exist
in
oakland,
but
through
the
two
years
of
two
and
a
half
years
of
public
process
wanted
to
be
able
to
express
a
future
land
use
plan.
C
You
know
that
is
really
the
way
that
the
goals
of
the
plan
are
expressed
through
the
development.
You
know
through
development
that
we'll
see
in
the
next
10
years,
and
so
you
know.
Obviously
there
was
a
lot
of
feedback
in
in
communication
as
a
part
of
this
process
with
you
know
things
like
the
oakland
community,
land
trust,
for
example.
As
you
know,
as
a
way
in
which
you
know,
things
started
to
take
place
as
well.
C
As
you
know,
the
development
again
that
we
project
to
see
over
the
the
ten
years,
which
were
part
of
the
planning
process
and
the
economic
development
housing
studies
that
associ
that
were
associated
with
that
you
know
and
we'll
come
back
to
this
slide.
At
the
end,
we
do
have
the
current
zoning
proposal
that
is
coming
forward
to
you
all,
which
is
primarily
for
the
fifth
forbes
corridor,
for
the
boulevard
of
the
allies
in
central
oakland.
C
However,
in
enacting
the
future
land
use
map,
there
will
be
expected
future
rezonings
that
will
be
working
with
the
oakland
community
on
looking
at
areas
like
north
oakland.
Primarily
you
know
around
craig
street
and
the
mixed
use
areas
there.
Looking
at
the
employment
area,
which
was
really
defined
through
the
plan
for
the
melwood
for
the
melwood
area,
north
of
bomb
boulevard
and
looking
at
some
changes
to
residential
zoning
as
well,
but
we
weren't
as
far
along
in
the
discussions
on
on
those
pieces.
C
So
those
will
come
to
council
at
a
future
point
in
time
and
you
know-
are
unassociated
with
this
proposal,
but
related
in
that
the
plan
did
make
those
suggestions
and
so
just
to
I'll
try
to
quickly
fly
through
these
next
few
few
slides
around
housing-
and
this
gets
to
the
proposed
rmu
district.
C
There
was
an
area
in
central
oakland
that
was
looked
at
for
higher
density
residential.
You
know,
then,
you
know
was
currently
you
know
under
the
zoning
looking
at
how
we
incorporate
potential
new
multi-family
zoning
into
a
place
that
has
a
pretty
broad,
varied
character.
C
Presently,
and
you
know
there
are
historic
homes
in
this
in
this
area
as
well
as
multi-family
structures
currently-
and
you
know
in
trying
to
look
at
you
know
how
we
incorporate
different
types
of
urban
design
and
mixed
use
into
you
know
into
that
area
of
central
oakland
was
something
that
we
looked
for
with
the
rmu
district.
If
we
move
to
the
next
slide,.
C
You
know
again,
you
know.
Similarly,
in
you
know,
in
this
area,
you
know
looking
at
areas
where
the
the
density
might
be
a
little
lower,
but
you
know
that
the
still
the
uses
were
pretty
interspersed.
C
We
do
have
commercial
uses
on
places
like
bates
and
simple
streets
here
presently,
so
I
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we're
accommodating
and
enhancing
those
into
the
future,
and
you
know
and
and
trying
to
understand
how
you
know
the
the
land
uses
that
are
coming
through
in
in
the
zoning
you
know
ultimately
relate
to
a
lot
of
the
desires
that
people
put
through
the
planning
process
for
expanded,
open
spaces
for
other
types
of
amenities.
C
C
You
know
moving
on
to
the
next,
I
I'll
just
you
know.
I
won't
touch
on
this
much
just
because
these
are
areas
that
aren't
a
part
of
the
zoning
proposal,
but
there
was
there
were
areas
kind
of
preserved.
If
we
look
at
places
like
oak,
cliff
or
shanley
farms,
or
some
of
those
places
where
there
is
an
assumption
that
there
is
some
lower
residential
uses,
that
will
continue
in
oakland
over
time
and
if
we
move
to
the
next
one,
you
know
which
we
start
to
look
at
employment.
C
There
are
some
areas
of
the
neighborhood
that
the
plan
identified
as
really
you
know,
employment
center
uses-
and
you
know
thinking
about
the
fifth
and
forbes
corridor
and
their
relationship
to
you-
know
the
commercial
activity,
the
institutional
activity,
the
tech
and
other
activity
that
goes
on
in
that
and
really
trying
to
think
about
ways
to
increase
the
density
in
those
areas
and
allow
for
further
development
of
those
areas
as
as
in
the
innovation
district.
C
And
you
know,
in
addition
to
the
fifth
and
forbes
quarter
like
I
said
there
is
a
small
area
that
you
know
also.
If
we
look
at
melwood,
you
know
north
of
bomb
boulevard
and
the
uses
there.
That
was
another
place
where
the
this
innovativation
district
land
use
was
applied
and
then
moving
on
to
the
mixed
use
areas.
You
know
again,
you
know
what
we
here
primarily
to
talk
about
is
the
urban
center
mixed
use,
the
ucmu
district
in
and
around
the
boulevard
of
the
allies.
C
C
Really
there
was
probably
you
know,
an
appetite
for
up
to
nine
stories
in
that
area,
but
looking
at
the
boulevard
of
the
allies,
which
the
proposal
before
council
includes,
you
know
that
we
are
looking
for
taller.
You
know
taller
buildings
in
some
areas.
You
know
where,
in
you
know,
to
allow
for
dense
mix
a
dense
mixed
use
district
along
the
boulevard
of
the
allies.
C
With
that
you
move
to
the
planning
commission
public
hearing,
you
know,
like
you,
noted
councilman,
you
know
the
planning
commission
did
adopt
the
plan.
The
oakland
plan
at
you
know
you
know
back
in
may.
They
did
make
a
positive
recommendation
to
city
council
with
a
series
of
conditions
and
when
kate
walks
through
the
zoning
proposal,
she
walked
through
what
those
conditions
were
and
how
we
satisfied
those
conditions
and
the
proposal
that
was
brought
to
city
council.
C
E
You
deputy
director
dash,
can
you
hear
me
okay,.
E
Great,
thank
you
all
right.
So
the
meet
of
what
we
are
going
to
be
talking
about
today
is
three
new
base.
Sony
districts
uce,
which
is
the
urban
center
employment
ucmu,
which
is
the
urban
center
for
mixed
use
and
rmu,
is
residential
mixed
use.
So
that's
the
sort
of
biggest
area
to
be
re-zoned,
there's
also
a
small
rezoning
for
several
city-owned
parks
that
are
going
to
be
rezoned
to
p
as
parks,
so
the
existing
public
realm
districts,
the
oakland
public
realm
district,
a
for
atwood
c
for
fifth
and
forbes
and
d
for
boulevard.
E
Follow
the
sony
district
boundaries
and
we
have
the
new
base
study
districts,
use
our
existing
performance
point
system
in
chapter
915,
which
allows
bonus
heights.
As
part
of
this
amendment.
We
are
adding
options
for
new
bonus
points,
amending
some
assisting
and
also
including
prerequisites
that
have
to
be
met
prior
to
using
the
performance
point
system
just
for
these
uce
ucmu
and
rmu,
and
we'll
see
that
a
little
bit
later
so
just
taking
a
quick
look
at
the
existing
zoning,
I
won't
dwell
on
these
slides.
E
We
can
go
back
if
there's
any
questions
later
and
then
the
current
proposed
zoning,
which
again
creates
the
uce,
the
rmu
and
the
ucmu,
so
the
uce
isn't
really
along
fifth
and
forbes,
and
a
little
bit
along
the
lovato
the
allies.
E
The
ucmu
is
also
along
with
our
day
allies
and
then
the
rnu
is
more
into
the
central
heart
of
the
residential
district.
There
all
right
and
the
existing
height
limits
so.
E
The
proposed
maximum
heights,
including
the
special
exception
along
fifth
and
forbes,
to
go
up
to
120
feet
and
85
feet
along
boulevard
of
the
allies.
And
then
this
is
the
height
proposal
and.
E
District,
as
you
can
see,
they
split
in
in
some
areas
and
the
numbers
that
you
see
on
the
screen,
so
the
the
numbers
that
aren't
parentheses
are
the
ones
that
are
the
base
height
and
then,
in
parentheses.
Adjacent
to
that
would
be
the
maximum
height
that
could
be
achieved
using
the
performance
point
system,
and
then
the
white
line
that
you
see
on
the
zoning
map
is.
D
D
E
Or
zero
carbon
buildings,
all
of
the
new
base
loading
districts
can
use
those
same
as
on-site
energy
generation.
Affordable
housing
is
a
lot,
although
we've
modified
how
the
how
the
point
points
work
there.
On-Site
public
art
can
be
used.
Workforce
development.
This
one
is
new
as
part
of
this
draft
to
chapter
915
for
the
performance
points
and
I'll
walk
through.
D
E
The
first
is
that
projects
need
to
meet
the
minority
and
women
business
enterprise,
compliance
intent,
that's,
that
is
the
city
policy,
and
it
has
to
be
satisfactory
efforts,
which
is
just
a
standard
term
related
to
mwbe
and
then
second,
that
all
projects
here
using
the
performance
points
have
to
be
the
lowest
point
for
energy
consumption.
E
E
So
the
energy
point
has
been
updated
through
this
process
and
it
won't
go
into
the
details
here,
but
generally
the
we
needed
to
redo
to
update
these,
because
the
energy
codes
have
increased
statewide,
and
so
what
we
had
as
a
has
performance
points,
was
basically
base
building
code
requirements.
So
again.
D
E
E
Trying
to
achieve
here
is
also
just
getting
away
from
fossil
fuels
and
we
created
are
proposing
to
create
the
equitable
development
performance
points
here.
So
there's
three
ways
that
you
can
get
one
performance
point
here:
there's
the
only
way
you
can
get
just
the
one
performance
point
is
a
signed.
D
E
Agreement
between
a
project
and
a
local
workforce
group
that
would
provide
local
workforce
training
or
other
sort
of
non-franchise
business.
You
could
get
one
bonus
point
for
that
and
then
the
other
two
points
actually
scale
up
here.
So
the
first
one
is
the.
If
you
hire
10
of
the
jobs
in
the
building
from
under
represented
groups
for
10
years,
you
can
get.
D
E
Point
or
you
could
pay
into
the
city's
equitable
development
trust
fund
and
those
people,
and
then
those
scale
up.
E
For
jobs
in
the
building
or
dollars
per
rental
commercial
square
foot
scale
up
to
either
give
you
two
bonus
points
or
three
books
once
all
right.
We
have
also
sort
of
re-thought
about
the
way
that
we
have
done
raw
residential
compatibility
here,
and
this
is
coming
out
of
thinking
about
how
to
make
sure
that
it's
sort
of
more
context,
sensitive
as
opposed
to
just
you
know,
adjacent
to
a
residential
zoning.
H
E
F
E
Had
an
existing
structure
within
a
green
buffer,
you
would
be
able
to
allow
to
expand
that
as
a
special
exception,
so
that
would
have
to
go
to
the
zoning
board
for
hearing,
but
it
would
be
permitted
by
franks.
E
We
also
as
as
we've
sort
of
rethought
about
how
to
do
residential
compatibility.
We
actually
have
a
map
tank
reduction
zone
and
again
the
idea
is
that
we're
actually
taking
a
look
at
what's
adjacent
to
these
areas
and
identifying
where
there
is
a
less
density,
adjacent
or
abutting.
E
Districts,
so
it's
actually
mapped
on
our
zoning
map.
The
production
zone
is
20
feet
in
depth.
In
that
first
20
feet.
A
new
structures
can't
be
more
than
20
feet,
taller.
B
E
And
then
this
is
something
that
we
did
as
as
part
of
the
planning
commission
presentation
was
to
look
at
sort
of
what
some
of
these
maximum
heights
and
build
out
sections
would
be.
You
know
I
won't
we
can
just.
I
can
sort
of
look.
Excuse
me.
Sorry,
slowly,
go
through
this.
Just
so
folks
can
take
a
look.
E
I'm
not
gonna
sort
of
you
know
narrate
each
one,
but
then
if
we
also
have
any
questions
at
the
end,
we
certainly
can
come
back,
and
it
will
also
say
that
these
illustrate
maximum
height
with
the
bonuses
with
no
urban
open
space
required.
So
urban
open
space
would
be
required
depending.
D
E
Size,
but
the
idea
is
we're
just
trying
to
show
you
know
massive
maximum
possible
build
out
in
all
these
areas,
so
this
is
on
ophelia
and
then
we've
done
the
either
could
have
a
zero
foot
setback
or
a
no
setback.
So
we
showed
those
two.
D
E
And
then
the
uce
along
the
key
place
with
mckee
in
front
and
then
sort
of
cold
tart
down
at
the
bottom.
E
All
right
and
then
the
rmu
alumni
key
place,
which
is
the
different.
The
key
has
the
has
the
two
different
zoning
districts
in
two
different.
D
E
Regular
zoning
and
the
existing
parking
minimums
would
now
be.
The
maximum
folks
may
be
familiar
that
there
is
already
a
parking
reduction
zone
in
central
oakland
along
a
portion
of
fifth
and
forbes.
That
would
go
away
so
the
parking
reduction
would
be.
Basically,
it
would
be
as
if
the
that
the
existing
parking
production
zone
didn't
exist,
but
it's
not
half
of
that
half
it's
just
half
of
what
the
requirement
would
have
been
otherwise.
E
D
E
The
proposal
also
proposes
to
require
structured
and
integral
parking
of
six
or
more
spaces,
either
ev,
ready
or
even
capable
and
there's
different
percentages.
For
those
two.
However,
we
have
carved
out
that
affordable
housing
is
accepted
from
this
requirement.
E
All
right,
so
I'm
not
going
to
go
over
the
sort
of
full
proposed
use
as
cable
and
standards
that
is
is
available
on
engaged
pgh
and
that's
something
that,
as
the
as
he
came
through
the
process,
the
public
process,
the
planning
commission
process,
those
uses
have
been
updated,
based
on
feedback
from
the
public
and
community
groups
and
commissions.
E
E
E
E
We
also
have
minimum
sidewalk
widths
for
development.
The
maximum
building
length
is
250
feet,
except
for
the
grocery
store
use.
There
are
architectural
design
standards,
things
like
ground
floor
transparency,
long
life,
facades.
D
E
Projects
to
consider
the
area
that's
most
important
for
this,
for
the
safety
of
birds,
bird
crashes
is
the
first
60
feet
of
the
building
and
then
anywhere
adjacent
to
green
roofs.
E
We
do
have
upper
story,
setbacks
for
taller
buildings.
These
generally
start
at
65
feet
or
six
stories,
and
then
we
do
have
building
frontage
requirements.
The
idea
is
that
you
know
in
order
to
have
a
successful
urban
realm
having
a
building.
That's
that
actually
interacts
with
the
street
makes
it
more
walkable
and
pedestrian
friendly.
B
So
so,
sixty
percent
of
the
building
facade
has.
E
To
be
in
that
build
to
zone
we've
also
updated
the
planning
commission
thresholds
here
so
right
now
in
the
open
public
realm
anything
greater
exterior
renovation,
greater
than
50
000
needs
to
go
to
planning
commission.
So
this
is
really
trying
to
get
at
setting
up.
What's
a
reasonable
threshold
for
projects.
B
E
E
Of
any
primary
structure
of
15
000
square
feet
or
greater
or
a
total
of
more
than
five
primary
structures
under
the
same
ownership
and
then
new
parks
and
recreation
use
of
24
100
square
feet
of
raider
planning
commission
is
required
unless
our
commission
is
is
required,
in
which
case
it
would
have
its
public
hearing
at
our
commission
and
then
for
anything
for
project
development
plans.
I
have
to
go
to
planning
commission
for
building
demolitions
that
has
to
include
a
report
study
your
statement
of
the
property's
future
use
that
meets
the
planning
commission
criteria.
E
For
projects
that
go
to
planning
commission,
this,
the
legislation
proposes
to
require
a
whole
building
life
cycle
assessment.
So
this
is
really.
This
is
taking
a
look
at
how
much
carbon
is
used
both
when
the
building
is
in
use
and
also
what's
called
embedded
carbon.
So
that's
how
much
carbon
is
making
the
building
building
material
extraction,
transportation,
construction,
deconstruction
and
the
idea
here
is:
there's
not
we're
not
there's,
not
any
metrics
for
carbon
reductions.
The
idea
is
the
study.
E
Only
the
estimated
cost
is
about
ten
thousand
to
fifteen
thousand
dollars
and
it
would
be
integrated
integrated
into
the
design
review
process.
E
Commission-
and
the
idea
here
is
that
we're
really
trying
to
get
projects
to
think
and
to
start
to
think
early
about
their
carbon
footprint
and
ways
to
possibly
reduce
that,
and
hopefully
there
would
either
be
cost
crucial
ways
or
even
cost
saving
ways
that
they
could
reduce
the
carbon
and
so
again
by
tr,
asking
projects
to
sort
of
think
about
this
early.
We're
hoping
to
really
nudge
in
that
in
that
direction.
E
Neighborhood,
commercial
and
our
urban
neighborhood
commercial,
and
then
the
we're
going
to
keep
the
rmu
would
be
the
same
as
the
oakland
public
realm
is
currently
so
we
are
also,
as
part
of
this
proposal,
proposing
to
expand
the
inclusionary
zoning
overlay.
E
This
would
this
would
be
wider
than
the
base
zoning
districts
that
we
were
that
were
looking
at.
This
would
be
to
all
of
oakland,
except
the
emi.
E
Medical
institution
and
there's
a
really
small
part
of
west
oakland
that
touches
the
uptown
public
realm.
So
that
would
be
left
out
as
well,
and
the
reason
that
we're
excluding
the
educational
medical
institution
is
the
only
type
of
residential
we
really
see
there
is
storm
and
that
just
currently
isn't
set
up
in
a
way
that
we
that
we
can.
E
With
our
existing
inclusionary
zoning,
because
students
who
live
in
dorms
generally,
don't
have
income,
so
it's
it's
not.
E
We
can't
sort
of
verify
the
same
way
that
we
do
with
or
with
our
enthusiasm
all
right.
So
this
is.
This
is
the
same
standards
that
that
exist
for
the
inclusionary
zoning
elsewhere
in
the
city.
E
So
I
won't
go
through
this,
but
we
can
come
back
to
it
if
there
are
questions
all
right
and
then
just
touching
on
the
planning
commission
process.
So
the
planning
commission
made
a
positive
recommendation
on
this
legislation
at
its
meeting
on
june
14th,
with
three
conditions,
one
that
city
planning
provide.
D
E
Is
surrounded
by
tall
buildings
and
that
the
rezoning
pushes
it
to
increase
density
without
having
to
have
been
able
to
have
that
conversation
yet
and
you'll
see
images
on
the
next
couple,
slides
that
we
put
together
to
address
that
and
then
the
commission.
I
thought
that
the
400
feet
was
too
long
for
the
maximum
building
length,
and
I
saw
that
earlier,
but
that
is
now
the
250
foot
length,
except
for
grocery
store
and
planning.
E
Commission
also
felt
that
50
was
too
high
of
a
number
for
structured
parking
spaces
for
them
to
see
they
wanted
that
to
be
lower,
so
that
was
goes
down
to
40
spaces.
So
taking
a
look,
this
is
the
high
end
pocket
from
louisa
to
iroquois.
K
E
A
look
at
the
at
that
first
condition
that
planet
admission
planning
commission
made
again
these
are
you
know
it's
a
maximum,
build
out:
it's
not
a
development
proposal
and
again
it's
it
does
include
some
urban
open
space,
but
we're
really
trying
to
show
again
a
maximum
bill
like
here.
This
isn't
this
isn't
a
specific
development
proposal
and
if
it
doesn't
show
that
urban
open
space,
it
shows
the
building
setbacks,
and
then
this
is
the
maximum
height.
E
If
the
projects
received
all
of
the
bonus
points
up
to
that
maximum
height-
and
this
is
just
a
section
of
the
same
thing.
So
this
is
the
axon
versus
the
section,
and
this
was
included
as
well
these
these
diagrams,
when
we
sent
the
council
packet
up
to
the
council
offices,
so
they
should
have
received
that
as
well.
In
addition
to
this
being
as
part
of
the
presentation
today,.
E
400
feet
it's
now
200
feet,
except
for
grocery
store,
general
and
then
the
structured
parking
spaces
was
50
spaces.
Before
planning
commission
announced
boarding,
some
other
zoning
changes.
This
council
bill
2021
1906,
created
the
uc
emu
over
a
smaller
area
than
what
is
currently
proposed
in
this
in
this
legislation
for
the
ucmu,
but
it
is
sort
of
this.
E
The
same
area
so
basically
expand
the
ucmu.
So
the
council
bill
2021.
It
was
passed
by
council
earlier
this
year
on
june
28th,
and
then
it
was
signed
by.
E
Performance
points
we
do
have
some
changes
in
the
current
legislation
that
would
amend
some
of
those
appreciations,
but
they
are
substantially.
D
E
And
again,
these
the
changes
that
are
proposed
in
this
in
the
legislation
at
the
public
hearing
today
are
were
from
you
know,
public
and
community
commission
input
again.
The
ucmu
standards
are
are
substantially
the
same,
but
there
are
some
proposed
amendments
to
that.
We
do
have
a
current
application
for
a
development
site.
That's
in
that
ucmu.
D
E
As
required
by
the
zoning
code,
we've
mailed
and
posted
notice,
21
days
in
advance
of
this
public
hearing,
there
are
two
small
technical
amendments
that
need
to
be
made
to
the
legislation.
They've
just
erroneously
overlooked
the
planning
commission.
We
need
to
add
the
new
baseline
districts
to
99201
establishment
of
zoning
districts
and
then
to
the
zoning
district
hierarchy,
which
is
902.02.
E
So
I
will
turn
that
back
over
to
deputy
director
dash,
I
believe.
C
This
is
the
big
one
but
okay.
This
is
this
is
the
big
one,
but
this
is
one
stage
of
multiple
stages
of
the
zoning
proposal.
In
the
future
we
will
be
working
with
the
oakland
community
and
coming
back
to
city
council
on
you
know
these.
These
few
items
that
I
noted
before,
which
is
looking
at
you
know,
opportunities
for
missing
middle
housing,
including
accessory
dwelling
units,
something
that
came
before
council
very,
very
very
recently,
under
the
leadership
of
councilman
gross.
C
You
know,
but
you
know
thinking
about
that
in
the
residential
districts
and
how
that
applies.
Looking
at
those
mixed-use
zones,
craig
and
center,
being
primarily
those
in
north
oakland
and
then
looking
at
the
employment
zone
of
the
melwood
area.
So
you
know
obviously
in
oakland
there
are
a
lot
of
competing
interests.
A
lot
of
a
lot
of
you
know,
goals
for
you
know
that
that
are
competing
as
well
from
you
know,
residents
who
want
to
make
sure
that
the
effects
of
density
aren't
ones
that
you
know
are.
C
Are
you
know
ones
that
are
mitigated
near
them
and
that
they
want
to
see
additional
open
space?
You
know
to
businesses
and
institutions
that
want
to
see
opportunities
for
more
development
and
density
in
you
know
in
you
know
the
is
primarily
in
the
fifth
and
forbes
corridor,
but
you
know
in
oakland
more
generally,
you
know-
and
you
know
really
the
the
intention
of
these
zoning
districts.
E3
based
zoning
districts
and
the
application
of
them
is
to
try
to
create
that
balance
and
to
create
that
opportunity.
C
C
You
know,
and
you
know
doing
that
in
the
context
of
you
know,
increasing
density
as
oakland
plays
a
role
in
being
an
innovation
district,
being
a
neighborhood
being
a
business
district
being
a
home
for
institutions
and
others.
You
know,
and
I
think
that
you
know,
as
kate
had
noted,
really
the
opportunity
for
more
density.
We
wanted
to
make
sure
that
if
you
know
for
that
to
be
provided
that
it
was
done
in
conjunction
with
the
performance
point
system,
so
that
there
was
community
benefit
that
came
into
place.
A
A
So
I
I
appreciate
kate,
thank
you
so
much
director
deputy
director
dash.
Thank
you.
I
don't
think
I
exaggerate
when
I
say
this
is
a
enormous
amount
of
information
to
to
gather
process,
incorporate
and
and
understand.
More
importantly
than
anything
else,
I'm
going
to
begin
by
asking
our
clerk
to
schedule
a
briefing
for
council
members,
lavelle
strasberger
and
myself
as
representatives
of
oakland.
So
we
can
do
a
deep
dive
while
being
mindful
and
respectful
of
sunshine,
we
can
do
a
deep
dive.
This
is
not
something
to
be
taken
lightly.
A
There
is
an
enormous
amount
of
information
here
that
needs
to
be
understood
and
processed,
and
then
I'm
going
to
ask
to
have
that
expanded
to
other
members
of
council
as
well
too,
in
keeping
with
sunshine
law,
but
but.
A
Yeah
understood,
but
we
you
know,
we
ultimately
have
to
take
the
vote.
I
want
us
to
to
fully
understand
the
repercussions
of
the
decisions
and
choices
that
we'll
be
making.
This
is.
This
is
not
you
know,
a
simple
zoning
change
by
any
means,
so
with
that,
madam
clerk,
if
you
would
please
this,
if
we
could,
you
know
begin
with
that
to
have
a
better
understanding
of
the
responsibility
we
have
in
in
completely
understanding
and
incorporating
what's
being
put
before
us.
A
That
would
be
a
good
first
step
there
and
then,
of
course,
for
all
members
as
well
too,
in
keeping
with
respect
for
sunshine
and
all
applicable
laws
that
we're
bound
by
in
order
to
better
understand,
but
I,
for
one,
am
somewhat
overwhelmed
by
the
amount
of
information
we've
just
been
presented.
So
with
that
we
are
here
primarily
to
hear
from
you,
and
so
I
do
want
to
go
into
the
public
comment
portion
of
the
the
meeting.
A
We
do
have
30
people
that
have
registered,
so
we
have
a
significant
amount
of
people
that
wish
to
register
comments.
So
with
that,
oh
and
I
need
to
say
for
the
record,
we
have
been
joined
by
council
members
gross
and
council
men
wilson
as
well,
and
so
we
will
now
move
on
to
the
our
registered
speakers.
A
Each
speaker
will
have
we
ask
when
you
come
to
the
podium
to
please
give
your
name,
the
neighborhood
in
which
or
the
institution,
if
you
will
that
you
represent
while
you're
here
each
person
is
given
three
minutes,
those
that
are
online.
How
were
they
notified?
Madam
clerk,
I
should
know
that
between
red,
green
and
yellow,
we'll
just
shut
off.
So
if
you
are
joining
us
via
zoom,
as
your
three
minutes
conclude,
the
microphone
will
shut
off.
A
A
N
From
oco
has
been
submitted,
osio
fields,
bill,
592,
is
fraught
with
issues
we
are
asking.
The
council
does
not
pass
it
until
more
work
is
done
on
it,
as
problems
exist
with
boundaries,
dimensions
uses
and
the
performance
point
system.
The
boundaries
need
to
be
adjusted,
so
residential
parcels
are
all
blanketly
re-zoned.
Some
of
these
are
on
joehammer
square
kraft,
avenue,
wellsford,
halcon
and
mckee.
Oakcliff
community
organization
is
not
opposed
to
some
commercial
enterprises
in
oakcliff.
However,
we
feel
we
should
have
a
say
in
it
case
by
case,
since
we
are
the
ones
most
impacted.
N
Entire
residential
streets
should
not
be
vulnerable
to
demolition.
This
calls
for
an
amendment
to
remove
residential
parcels
from
while
we
appreciate
the
length
being
reduced
from
400
to
250
feet.
It
is
still
too
long
as
250
feet
is
a
city
block.
The
heights
of
210,
185
and
120
feet
do
not
belong
adjacent
to
residential
areas.
Coal
tart
will
become
a
canyon,
and
oak
cliff
will
be
walled
in
urban
center
employment.
Zoning
allowing
heights
of
210
feet
does
not
belong
right
across
from
oak
cliff.
That
height
is
not
in
keeping
with
other
nearby
buildings.
N
Opr
districts
designed
to
protect
the
character
of
best
intensive
uses
from
impacts
with
more
intensive
uses
are
being
eliminated.
Gone
are
residential
compatibility
standards,
setbacks
and
other
protections
for
our
neighborhoods.
Our
tax
dollars
are
getting
us
less
protection
from
other
neighborhoods.
The
character
of
our
neighborhoods
will
be
destroyed.
N
The
youth
table
was
developed
by
city
planners
without
public
engagement.
The
performance
point
system
never
discussed
at
meetings
was
developed
by
city
planners.
After
all,
the
meetings
were
over
building
can
reach
maximum
height
through
points
which
don't
benefit
the
community
one-time
fines
for
failure
to
comply.
If
there
even
was
enforcement
amount
to
the
cost
of
doing
business
to
get
more
height,
one
requirement
is
actually
being
incentivized.
N
Both
the
use
table
and
the
point
system
need
to
be
reworked
with
community
input
and
a
recent
approach.
We
applaud
the
inclusionary
zoning
piece
of
this
as
occurred
in
other
neighborhoods.
It
should
be
its
own
legislation.
Placing
a
hero
was
employed
to
get
all
the
other
zoning
approved.
Please
do
not
pass
this
just
to
get.
N
It
can
be
stand
alone,
legislation,
perhaps
new
zoning
type,
should
each
new
zoning
type
should
have
its
own
bill.
There
is
criteria
area
city
council
has
to
consider
for
zoning
changes.
How
that
criteria
are
not
met,
is
outlined
in
our
letter
as
city
council
you're,
to
represent
the
interests
of
constituents.
This
zoning
bill.
D
N
A
Thanks
elena
appreciate
your
comment:
our
next
registered
speaker
is
micro,
michael
for
give
me
kayman
online
or
in
person
michael
caiman,
nope,
okay,
we'll
hold
off.
If
he
does
join
us,
we'll
bring
him
back
james
young,
on
line
or
in
person.
I
I
These
beautiful
historic
buildings
built
by
the
unnamed
hands
of
some
of
our
grandparents
and
great-grandparents,
are
torn
down
willy-nilly
to
be
replaced
with
cheap,
prefabricated
and
ugly
modern
structures
and
city
leaders.
Like
the
mayor,
like
the
historic
review
commission
and
the
city
council
will
often
roll
over
when
money
interests
start
talking
about
progress
as
they
see
it.
I'd
like
to
ask
three
things:
number
one
protect
pittsburgh's,
pre-war
buildings.
I
I
For
centuries,
people
have
been
coming
to
pittsburgh
to
squeeze
personal
financial
profit
out
of
the
city,
often
with
callous
disregard
for
the
environment,
the
people
or
the
cultural
history
of
what
was
built
before
we
must
protect
pittsburgh
and
allow
her
worthy
built
cultural
history
to
survive.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Thank
you,
mr
young
appreciate
you
being
here:
billy
sass
you're,
our
next
registered
speaker
and
you
wish
to
register
comment
in
opposition,
so
welcome
millie.
P
I'm
on
thank
you,
my
name,
a
long-term
of
the
oakland
community.
The
ordinance
in
front
of
you
is
faulty
in
many
ways,
which
is
hit
with
significant
problems
in
both
process
and
product.
I
urge
you
to
return
it
back
to
city
planning
for
a
complete
redo.
More
residents
need
to
be
involved.
Their
questions,
concerns
and
contribution
must
be
truly
considered
and
made
part
of
the
oakland
plan
for
the
current
version.
The
input
needs
and
requests
of
businesses,
universities,
hospitals
and
outside
consultants
were
disproportionately
included
in
the
final
product.
P
To
read
when
we
asked
for
clarity,
we
were
often
given
wrong
information
about
the
plan
and
the
zoning
based
on
its
maps.
If
oakland
is
such
a
leader
in
education,
technology
and
employment
opportunity
in
the
state
and
nation,
then
oakland
deserves
a
more
cr,
comprehensive
and
inclusive.
Look
at
what
it
could
become
in
the
next
decades,
rather
than
picking
pieces
of
an
ornament
from
another
city
area,
one.
P
P
And
opportunity
deserves
to
begin
at
the
beginning
to
create
a
wonderful
plan
that
benefits
our
businesses
as
well
as
our
long
and
short-term
residents.
We
must
not
be
written
out
of
the
vision
state
and
we
must
contribute
to
the
vision
I
realize.
Maybe
this
is
not
what
you're
voting
on
in
in
the
legislation
in
front
of
you,
but
I
need
to
say
it.
Development.
P
D
P
Restoned
from
a
residential
category
to
ucmu,
which
will
open
flood
days
for
huge
buildings
with
associated
parking
and
problems,
the
point
system
might
work
for
some
city
areas,
but
it
will
result
in
items
that
do
not
meet
the
needs
of
oakland
residents.
I
could
go
on
and
on,
but
we've
heard
it
all
before.
This
is
a
harmful
ordinance.
It
needs
to
be
quashed,
reject.
P
A
K
I'm
norm
cleary
and
I
serve
as
chairman
of
the
schenley
farm,
civic
association,
institutional
and
government
relations
committee
and
I
reside
on
parkman
avenue
in
north
oakland
history
and
experience
have
demonstrated
compelling
reasons
for
concern
over
anticipated
unintended
consequences
of
including
historic
structures
and
districts.
Within
the
ico,
there
are
limited
applications
for
the
proposed
amendments
on
the
underlying
r1dvl
historic
district,
but
there's
more
to
consider
the
shelley
farms.
Historic
district
is
a
neighborhood
of
remarkable
examples
of
turn-of-the-century
historic
architecture
with
families
of
ethnic
and
racial
diversity.
K
As
a
result,
the
property
owner
was
able
to
fund
maintenance,
improve
building
energy
efficiency
and
add
amenities
permitting
our
area
seniors
to
age
in
place.
Now,
why
is
this
relevant?
Just
across
the
street?
Sits
shunley,
high
school
constructed
within
the
historic
district
and
but
for
timing
would
have
fallen
within
the
izo
affordability
mandate.
K
An
already
complex
process
of
approvals
for
adaptive
reuse
as
multi-family
residential
units
would
have
become
further
complicated.
Had
the
izo
been
in
effect
at
the
time
for
years,
the
historic
high
school
building
set
sat
vacant
and
was
considered
by
most
qualified
developers
as
a
white
elephant.
Finding
a
developer
with
a
vision
and
financial
resources
to
properly
preserve
the
property
and
assure
compatibility
within
the
residential
neighborhood
was
very
challenging.
K
K
A
We
don't
indicate
inter
act,
engage.
I
said
that
both
at
the
same
time,
okay
at
a
public
hearing
but
norman,
thank
you
for
your
comments
well
received.
Thank
you.
I
appreciate
it.
Our
next
registered
speaker
who
wishes
to
speak
in
favor
is
andrea,
boykowitz,
andrea,
are
you.
H
Live
on
parkview
in
central
louisiana,
thanks
very
much
for
the
opportunity
to
speak.
I
don't
have
terribly
well
prepared
remarks
here
and
I've
been
listening
to
my
neighbors
as
well
as
to
the
presentation
that
kate
davis
went
through.
H
H
The
ucmu
zone,
which
is
illustrative
of
the
point
that
we've
been
making
all
along
that
zoning
as
hellcat
as
the
ucmu,
was
not
an
outcome
of
the
global
planning
process
and
it
isn't
necessarily
consistent
with
the
recommendations
that
came
out
of
that
process.
H
I
wanted
to
know
also
that
the
the
profile
renderings
that
kate
vikas
represented
for
the
heights
on
the
key
place
and
helicopter
street
versus
full
target
and
pocket
were
alarming,
but
they
were
also
understated
because
they
didn't
take
into
account
the
actual
topography
of
the
ground,
so
they
had
an
additional
15
feet
on
either
side
to
the
difference
that
those
proposed
heights
actually
create
for
the
people
at
ground
level.
One
on
wholeberry.
H
H
The
learning
changes
we'll
all
have
for
oakland,
and
I
only
wish
the
council
had
taken
the
same
trouble
when
considering
level
2021
1906,
then
I'm
not
going
to
beat
the
dead
forest,
but
I
would
like
to
point
out
that
there
are
great
many
implications
for
almost
every
single
one
of
these
zoning
aspects.
That
should
be
taken
carefully
under
consideration
and
are
very
difficult
to
understand,
especially
if
delivered
in
this
kind
of
rapid
fire
manner.
H
That
city
planning
just
presented
to
you
that's
the
first
time
the
public
was
seeing
them
as
well,
and
it
was
difficult
for
you
to
grasp
them
in
that
kind
of
speed.
And
if
you
need
additional
time
and
information
in
order
to
be
able
to
make
a
reasoned
decision,
then
I'd
like
you
to
consider
that
the
veterans
of
oakland
might
need
the
same
consideration.
H
Oakland
indicating
that
the
subject
of
this
afternoon's
hearing
was
inclusionary
zoning
and
it
did
not
detail
that
the
bill
can
you
know
just
before
you
were
the
package
that
is
before
you
included
all
of
the
zoning
proposals,
and
I
feel
that
that
is
maybe
a
little
bit
misleading.
A
A
G
My
name
is
wanda
wilson,
with
open
planning
and
development
corporation,
a
nonprofit
community
development
organization
serving
the
community
with
affordable
housing
development
community
services,
with
a
focus
on
racial
and
economic
equity
for
our
residents,
opdc
is
a
developer
owner
and
manager
of
affordable
housing
both
for
rent
and
for
sale.
We
have
very
long
wait
lists
for
our
units
in
our
affordable
apartment
buildings.
The
affordable
housing
crisis
in
our
city
and
in
oakland
is
real.
We
support
approval
of
the
inclusionary
zoning
overlay
to
all
of
oklahoman.
G
We
urge
you
to
approve
this
opdc
is
concerned
about
the
impact
the
new
urban
center
residential
mixed-use
district
will
have
on
small-scale
residential
areas
surrounding
it
on
several
instances,
coldheart
and
niagara.
As
examples
members
of
the
planning
commission
shared
these
concerns
regarding
heightened
density
and
open
space
they
expressed,
and
we
share
concern
about
the
regulations
allowing
large
building
maps
with
tiny,
open
spaces
that
will
not
add
high
quality
spaces
nor
mitigate
massive
buildings
on
neighbors.
G
Overly
large
building
frontage
is
a
problem
in
terms
of
urban
design
to
quit
the
commission
chair.
I
can't
imagine
where
a
400
long
foot
long
building
belongs
in
these
districts.
The
sounding
allows
building
development
that
will
not
create
great
spaces.
While
this
has
been
changed
250
feet.
We
question
why
it's
the
exception
for
grocery
store,
use
and
oppose
that
provision.
G
The
commission
and
the
public
were
not
provided
adequate
information
and
visualization
about
the
zoning
proposals.
The
commission
expressed
concern
about
not
having
a
section
drawing
showing
the
potential
build
out
of
development
on
how
kid,
in
relation
to
the
existing
homes
on
cold
heart,
so,
commissioner,
steve
that
city
council
should
consider
this
impact.
You
now
have
that
drawing
the
commission
did
not
have
adequate
information.
They
spent
a
great
deal
of
time
articulating
their
concerns.
G
G
Impact
use
the
performance
point
system
is
a
compelling
zoning
device
to
achieve
certain
goals.
Opc
is
concerned
that
they
will
not
achieve
equitable
development
to
support
oakland
residents,
especially
low-income
residents.
Here
it's
a
missed
opportunity
that
the
economic
opportunity
point
system
is
very
unlikely
to
support
the
needs
of
underserved
residents
in
our
community,
so
the
goal
of
equity
will
not
be
achieved.
G
We
opc
supports
equitable
development
to
support
the
needs
of
oakland
residents,
and
the
performance
points
will
not
go
far
enough
to
achieve
this
or
guarantee
that
oakland
residents
will
benefit
while
increased
density
in
central
oakland
adjacent
to
the
business
district
makes
sense
from
a
planning
point
of
view,
we're
concerned
about
the
impact
of
large-scale
demolition
recommended
demolition.
Overlay
review
be
put
in
place
to
coordinate
city
departments
to
respond
to
the
many
issues
that
will
surely
arise.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify.
A
S
Yes,
I
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
speak
to
you
today.
My
name
is
robert
h,
squires,
I'm
currently
res
president
of
the
shenandoah
farm
civic
association
and
reside
at
4301
bigelow
boulevard.
S
In
previous
testimony,
you
heard
a
little
about
the
adaptive
reuse
of
schindley
high
school
with
which
is
a
historic
building
within
the
historic
shinley
farms,
district
adaptive,
reuse
of
this
historic
building
as
a
multi-family
residential
required,
multi-faceted
analysis
of
historic
preservation,
interior
modification
of
the
floor
plans
and
project
economics
to
meet
a
minimum
economic
viability.
The
developer
proposed
a
roof
addition
which
both
the
community
and
the
historic
review
commission
opposed
as
it
was
constructed,
contextually
and
aesthetically
inappropriate.
S
A
T
Sorry,
I've
had
problems
in
the
past.
Okay,
I
live
on
julia
street
in
south
oakland.
I
want
to
say
it
again
for
the
record
that
I
am
not
opposed
to
some
changes
in
selling
or
new
development,
but
I
am
opposed
to
vastly
overreaching
changes
of
massive
development
that
would
be
permanently
detrimental
to
this
community,
one
step
closer
to
eliminating
even
more
residential
area
and
any
true
sense
of
community.
This
former
marathon
gas
station
is
being
redeveloped
now
without
a
single
variance
or
this.
T
I
legislation
challenge
council
president
gayle
smith,
to
reveal
where
the
abundance
of
quote-unquote
slums
are
to
justify
these
catastrophic
changes.
I
do
support
expanding
inclusionary
zoning
iz
in
oakland,
but
again
the
fact
that
maximum
heights
can
be
achieved
without
any
affordable
housing
points
requires,
at
least
that
change
and
a
more
thorough
overall
review
of
the
point
system
and
addressing
the
affordability
criteria,
as
well
as
the
fines
for
failure
to
comply
with
any
of
the
bonus
point.
Requirements
should
be
for
the
life
of
the
building.
T
T
You
can
see
in
my
annotated
images
I
sent
separately
that
they
don't
adequately
label
a
30-foot
differential
between
coulthard
avenue
and
the
key
place,
and
neither
diagram
seems
to
even
represent
the
20
to
30-foot
differential
of
the
hawking
street.
This
is
inexcusable.
We
have
come
to
expect
this
type
of
smoke
and
mirrors
from
developers,
but
not
quite
city
planning
the
basis
for
the
first
point
for
zero
energy.
Zero
carbon
is
part
of
current
normal
building
codes,
so
it
should
be
removed
and
any
requirements
for
accumulating
base
punch
should
be
adapted
to
include
affordable
housing.
T
T
Adjacent
to
the
boulevard,
the
allies
will
obliterate
the
view
of
cathedral
learning
that
thousands
of
southwestern
residents
have
enjoyed
and
cherished
as
a
sense
of
place
and
connection
for
nearly
100
years.
Please
do
not
allow
this
pale
and
inadequate
substitute
and
unnecessary
changes
or
reversibly.
T
Destroy
that
I
urge
city
council
to
reject
or
hold
or
further
modify
this
legislation
change
separate
out,
ic
restore
or
create
a
better
substitute
for
residential
compatibility
standards,
reduce
the
maximum
heights
given
by
points
and
expand
the
process
to
get
points
to
allow
for
some
community
impact
input
on
the
impacts
of
those
fights
amazing
similar
to
cva
areas.
Thank
you.
A
A
U
So
I'm
karen
breen,
I
live
at
300,
leroy
road
in
point
breeze
and
my
office
is
at
6401
penn
avenue
in
east
liberty,
I'm
here
today
in
my
role
as
planning
consultant
to
walnut
capital.
As
some
of
you
know,
I'm
an
alum
of
the
department
of
city
planning
and
I
was
also
a
consultant
to
planning
for
the
rewrite
of
the
zoning
ordinance
to
the
urban
zoning
code
project.
U
When
the
walnut
capital
team
first
saw
that
all
of
three
zoning
districts
would
be
packaged
together
for
introduction
to
city
council,
we
assumed
that
the
ucmu
legislation
would
remain
unchanged
with
the
exception
of
any
technical
cleanup.
But
apparently
that's
not
the
case.
We
performed
a
thorough
review
of
the
enacted
and
proposed
ordinances
and
found
a
number
of
changes.
U
Some
of
them
are
clearly
cleanup.
However,
there
are
other
changes
that
have
significant
impact
and
need
to
be
reviewed
prior
to
council
action
and
I'd
like
to
highlight
just
a
few
examples
of
them.
First
building
length,
which
you've
heard
about
already
today
in
the
enacted
legislation,
the
maximum
building
length
is
400
feet
in
the
proposed
amendments.
The
maximum
length
is
250
feet.
I'd
like
to
submit
an
exhibit
that
illustrates
existing
buildings
across
the
city,
including
in
oakland
that
would
not
have
been
allowed
under
this
requirement.
U
U
Thank
you.
Second.
Sorry.
I
want
to
talk
about
affordable
housing
for
a
minute.
In
the
enacted
legislation,
affordable
housing
is
incentivized
through
the
height
bonus
point
system.
In
the
proposed
amendments,
the
the
bonus
point
systems
remain.
However,
the
amendments
include
the
requirement
for
compliance
with
the
inclusionary
zoning
standards
that
appear
elsewhere
in
the
code.
Therefore,
it's
both
a
requirement
and
a
bonus.
U
Third,
an
example
of
use
regulations,
education,
educational
classroom
space
in
the
proposed
amendments.
A
youth
standard
has
been
added
that
doesn't
allow
educational
classroom
space
as
a
primary
use
in
a
building,
that's
twenty
thousand
square
feet
or
greater.
So,
as
a
result,
classroom
buildings
have
been
essentially
removed
from
the
ucmu
district.
U
So
I
would
like
to
just
submit
the
exhibit
that
I
talked
about
the
a
list
of
all
the
changes
between
the
enacted,
ucmu
and
a
matrix
that
I
did
that
pulls
it
out.
A
Perfect,
thank
you,
cara,
appreciate
it
pushing
the
envelope
there.
Thank
you.
Let's
see,
randy
sargent
is
our
next
registered
speaker
and
randy
wishes
to
register
comment
in
favor,
as
I
have
it
recorded
here.
So
randy
welcome
your
next.
Our
next
registered
speaker,
hi.
J
J
Together
with
my
neighbors,
I
helped
run
after
school
technology
and
arts
programs
outlook
like
serving
our
local
youth.
Over
recent
decades.
Those
rents
have
gone
up
faster
than
in
terms
of
our
residents.
Leonardo
clinton
have
lost
40
percent
of
our
fellow
black
residents.
That's
1600
of
our
neighbors
population
of
other
racism
has
been
aggregate
increased
in
the
past
years
as
I've
been
hoping
running
after
school
program.
Now,
I've
seen
many
families
of
our
programs.
Kids
lose
their
housing
all
families
of
color.
J
J
I
strongly
favoritely
propose
that
suspension
to
oakland
the
pittsburgh's
inclusionary
zoning
overlay
and
bleeding
will
be
an
effective
tool
to
harness
future
development
and
wealth
generation
to
stabilize
and
make
possible
housing.
For
those
of
us
in
must
have
risked
risk
of
displacement
from
these
same
activities
like
andrea
and
others.
I
mistakenly
thought
we'd
be
focusing
on
including
inclusionary
design.
Today
I
acknowledge
the
problems
expressed
by
my
fellow
residents
in
england
related
to
the
other
zoning
proposals
and
regret
not
preparing
myself,
to
make
comment
on
those
understanding
proposals.
A
Thanks
randy
appreciate
you
being
here:
let's
see
our
next
registered
speaker
is
richard
kaplan,
who
wishes
to
register
comment
in
favor
richard
you're
here
nope.
Thank
you.
If
he
comes
on,
we
will
come
back
to
him
david
brennigan.
I
hope
I
said
that
correctly,
not
online.
No
thank
you
alex
appreciate
it.
How
about
eric
mackadangdang?
A
O
I
join
in
with
randy
and
being
empathetic
to
the
concerns
that
have
been
brought
up
thus
far
by
residents,
but
as
it
specifically
pertains
to
inclusionary
zoning,
I
think
it's
the
bare
minimum
we
can
do
in
the
face
of
the
random
financialization
that
prices
out
poor
residents
in
our
neighborhoods
for
oakland.
This
was
a
clear
desire
to
have
inclusionary
zoning,
as
displayed
by
it
being
included
in
the
oakland
plan,
which
engaged
residents,
businesses,
institutions
and
other
stakeholders.
O
O
Being
a
human
rights
city
is
not
just
the
buzzword,
it's
a
legal
obligation
to
uphold
international
law
as
it
pertains
to
human
rights,
which
includes
basic,
adequate
housing,
oakland,
rent
residence
boat
current
and
in
the
future
basic
precarity
brought
on
by
the
influence
of
large
anchor
institutions
and
the
high
volume
of
activity
they
bring.
Thus,
we
need
to
base
the
housing
strategy
on
the
incomes
and
experiences
of
existing
residents.
We
need
a
housing
strategy
that
advocates
for
residents
not
merely
preserving
capital,
and
we
need
a
housing
strategy
that
expands,
affordable,
housing
in
our
neighborhoods.
O
A
A
V
Great,
thank
you.
My
name
is
christina
howell.
I
am
executive
director
of
bloomfield
development
corporation.
Our
address
is
4
900
friendship
avenue
in
bloomfield
I'm
here
today,
because
I
want
to
pull
it
out
very
narrowly
the
piece
about
inclusionary
zoning.
I
I
think
I'm
no
stranger
to
this.
V
V
However,
it
is
an
important
tool
for
us
and
we
believe
for
other
neighborhoods
around
us,
which
is
why
we
partnered
with
polish
hill
to
to
work
on
that
advocacy,
and
we
know
that
oakland
needs
more
affordable
housing.
I
think
that's
an
undisputed
fact
and
inclusionary
zoning
is
a
very
important
tool
that
can
help
create
those
affordable
units
and
affordable
houses,
particularly
in
a
neighborhood
collection
of
neighborhoods,
where
there
is
large-scale
development,
not
only
possible,
but
probable
and
planned.
V
So
I
am
here
simply
to
advocate
for
inclusionary
zoning
in
order
to
help
keep
folks
in
their
neighborhood,
but
also
allow
people
who
work
in
oakland
and
to
live
in
oakland,
because
it
is
increasingly
not
possible
for
folks
who
work
in
service
industries
and
support
our
large
institutions
to
live
nearby
their
jobs.
A
Q
Good
afternoon
I'm
georgia
petropolis
and
I'm
representing
the
oakland
business
improvement
district
good
afternoon,
council
and
good
afternoon,
councilman
krells.
I
will
begin
this
testimony
as
I
have
for
years.
Pittsburgh
has
two
downtowns,
both
a
regional
serving
job
centers
both
are
also
local,
serving
neighborhood
centers.
You
have
a
golden
triangle
and
you
have
a
golden
rectangle.
If
you
will,
our
uniqueness
in
oakland
is
that
our
economic
job-creating
generators
are
the
eds
and
meds
with
an
incredible
strength
in
research.
Q
Every
city
in
america
that
is
home
to
these
industries
are
all
vying
to
recruit
the
talent,
investment
jobs,
the
new
residents
and
families
that
these
generators
attract.
So
from
the
start,
we
all
understood
and
agreed
that
oakland
required
a
unique
approach
to
developing
a
long-term
plan
to
properly
reflect
this
local,
regional
and
global
serving
center.
Q
Q
Q
Q
We
support
the
open
plan
that
so
eloquently
and
boldly
spoke
to
these
goals.
We're
also
close
to
a
vision
statement
that
will
inevitably
guide
these
goals.
What
we
today,
though,
unfortunately
oppose,
is
the
zoning
legislation
put
forth
at
this
time,
we're
asking
for
council
to
provide
more
time
for
further
review
of
the
impact
that
this
zoning
will
have
on
oakland
as
one
of
pittsburgh's
key
economic
generators.
Q
However,
at
this
time
we
are
proposing
three
main
changes:
oakland
is
not
just
any
employment
center.
We
are
the
center
of
pittsburgh's,
thriving
innovation
district.
We
ask
that
the
uce
district
be
renamed
uc,
innovation,
oak
innovation,
district,
the
heights,
the
base
height
limit
in
the
uce
district
should
be
raised
from
85
to
a
minimum
of
150
feet
and
the
maximum
height
and
bonus
in
this
zone
should
be
210
feet
uniformly.
Q
We
ask
that
you
utilize
sub-districts,
to
encourage
uses
in
the
uce
zone,
such
as
consider
residential
uses
near
brt,
to
maximize
transit-orient
development
and
also
for
important
for
an
as
a
prerequisite
for
innovation
economy,
jobs
on
fifth
and
forbes
and
incentivize
retail
uses
that
promote
a
vibrant,
street-level
neighborhood.
Q
My
partners
today
will
speak
more
specifically
to
these
three
recommendations
that
you
will
hear
later
on.
So
therefore,
on
behalf
of
the
open
community
on
behalf
of
the
oakland
business
improvement
district,
we
will
we
ask
you
forward
to
continue
this
important
conversation.
We
look
forward
to
continuing
this
important
conversation
almost.
A
Thank
you
george.
I
appreciate
you
being
here.
Thank
you
very
much.
Dominic
victoria
will
be
our
next
registered
speaker.
Yes,
he
is
online
and
wishes
to
offer
comment
in
favor
of
the
legislation.
W
Wonderful
all
right
yeah,
so,
like
you
mentioned,
my
name
is
dominic
victoria,
I'm
a
junior
undergraduate
at
the
university
of
pittsburgh.
I've
also
lived
in
pittsburgh,
my
whole
life,
and
now
I
am
in
a
like
good
home,
put
on
an
apartment
style
residence,
but
I'm
in
central.
W
So
I
am
here
today
as
a
community
member
and
I'm
specifically
in
support
of
one
portion
of
the
proposal,
like
I
think
before
me,
and
that's
the
proposal
to
extend
the
inclusionary
zoning
to
include
sort
of
large
portion
of
our
neighborhood,
like
I
mentioned,
like
a
lot
of
people
have
mentioned,
there's
clearly
a
lot
going
on
in
this
package,
and
I
do
certainly
hope
the
concerns
of
presidents
who
spoke
on
those
other
questions
are
considered.
W
But
my
big
request
really
short.
Wherever
your
deliberations
take.
You,
please
include
include
inclusion
to
the
extent
it's
included
now
in
the
proposal.
I
I've
had
the
pleasure
putting
it
open
for
the
last
couple
years
and
I've
interacted
with
and
bust
through
and
spent
time
in
open
for
community
for
years
now
my
entire
life
and
I
think
it's
crucial-
that
more
housing
is
provided
here
and
I
think
that
housing
needs
to
legitimately
meet
the
needs
of
everyone,
regardless
of
their
income
level.
W
It's
especially
important
now,
in
light
of
some
of
those
bigger
development
projects
that
we're
seeing
in
the
very
near
future,
it
seems
that
lower
income
residents
are
not
forgotten
and
from
what
I
know
what
I've
seen.
I
see
sort
of
codifies
this,
so
it
won't
be
a
problem
to
the
extent
that
it
might
have
been
about
and
also,
I
think
that,
looking
at
a
city-wide
level,
the
program's
been
successful
in
other
neighborhoods.
So
I
just
hope
that
oakland
becomes
another
step
towards
eventually
extending
the
program
citywide.
W
You
know
I
do
have
every
intention
of
staying
here
forever
and
I
think,
with
each
expansion
of
ise,
we
as
pittsburghers-
and
you
know,
obviously
as
our
council
choking,
and
to
ensuring
that
everyone
who
wants
to
do
the
same.
Everyone
who
wants
to
live
in
nothing
or
live
in
pittsburgh
forever
is
actually
able
to
report
it
that
I
thank
you
and
yeah.
A
Thanks
dominic
appreciate
it
next
registered
speaker,
I
have
is
derek
dressler,
who
wishes
to
speak,
offer
comment
on
the
legislation.
Nope,
I'm
sorry,
we
don't
have
derek
how
about
mike
mad
madden,
yes,
mike
madden
is
on
mike.
You
are
our
next
registered
speaker
and
you
wish
to
offer
comment
on
the
legislation.
Thank
you.
X
First,
I
want
to
acknowledge
and
appreciate
the
efforts
by
all
parties
over
the
last
three
years.
This
oakland
plan
and
zoning
is
something
that
many
people
organizations
have
spent
quite
a
bit
of
time
get
effort
on
with
that
being
said,
I
am
careful
that
the
proposed
zoning
as
it
stands
today
will
not
deliver
on
the
goals
and
priorities
laid
forth
in
the
plan
we've
collectively
created
on
behalf
of
the
pittsburgh
innovation
district.
X
X
From
experience,
I
can
tell
you
that
innovation
districts
all
across
the
world
look
at
oakland,
with
envy,
with
a
collection
of
world-class
institutions
that
rival
nearly
any
other
market
proteins
deemed
oakland
the
most
naturally
occurring
innovation
district
in
the
world.
Our
universities
and
health
system
are
the
single
most
important
assets
for
our
region's
economic
future.
X
For
these
reasons,
we
need
to
plan
a
flag
of
support
and
commitment
and
designate
the
currently
named
uce
zone.
As
the
uc
innovation
district
within
the
zoning
code,
by
doing
so,
we
are
perpetuating
our
belief
that
oakland,
in
our
innovation
district,
is
not
a
place
that
can
be
replicated
anywhere
else
in
the
city
or
southwestern
pennsylvania.
X
Second,
in
order
to
maintain
our
competitive
advantage
against
our
city,
our
peer
cities,
we
need
to
have
a
realistic
building
height
within
the
innovation
district,
examining
along
fifth
and
forbes
avenue.
The
current
proposed
bonus
point
system
puts
us
at
a
major
disadvantage
by
relying
on
a
series
of
bonus
points
to
achieve
the
height
required
for
a
21st
century
innovation
economy.
X
There
is
a
dangerous
risk
to
think
that
developers
can
deliver
innovation,
assets
like
web
lab
and
competitive
office
space.
By
utilizing
this
difficult
bonus
point
system,
we
call
for
the
base
height
limit
in
the
uce
district
to
be
raised
from
85
feet
to
150
feet.
The
maximum
limit
with
bonus
in
the
zone
should
be
200
feet
uniformly
throughout
the
uce
zone,
and
the
length
of
the
building
should
be
extended
from
250
feet
to
400
feet
to
see
what
these
building
dimensions
can
deliver.
X
Finally,
we
believe
that
some
districts
should
be
utilized
to
strategically
encourage
specific
industry
uses
in
the
uce
zone.
By
concentrating
these
innovation
investments
in
central
oakland,
we
are
creating
intentional
controlled
pockets
of
development,
so
oakland
can
remain
a
neighborhood
that
is
a
strong
residential
area
within
a
walking
distance
of
a
world-class
innovation
and
business
district.
Thank
you.
For
your
time
consideration.
X
A
Thank
you
mike
charles
alcorn.
Do
we
have
charles
online?
Oh
hey,
charles
welcome.
Yes,
you
wish
to
write.
Yours
excuse
me.
Register
comment
in
opposition
to
the
legislation.
Welcome.
Y
My
name
is
chuck
alcorn,
I'm
here
to
to
speak
on
behalf
of
the
university
of
pittsburgh
in
my
role
as
planner
the
city,
along
with
many
oakland
residents,
business
owners,
community
organizations
and
institutions,
including
the
university
engaged
in
significant
public
review
of
the
oakland
plan.
However,
parts
of
the
actual
zoning
legislation
should
be
further
refined,
with
additional
input
from
key
stakeholders
and
property
owners.
Y
The
new
zoning
legislation
will
have
a
significant
impact
on
all
of
all
of
oakland
by
creating
new
zoning
districts,
adopting
substantial
changes
from
current
zoning
and
binding
property
owners
in
the
future
development
of
property.
The
significance
and
wide
reaching
effects
of
these
changes
merit
further
evaluation
and
refinement.
Y
In
addition,
the
university
is
concerned
about
the
lack
of
legally
required
written
notices
to
property
owners
for
this
hearing.
The
university
did
not
receive
a
legally
required
mail,
mailed
notice,
despite
owning
several
impacted
properties.
As
a
result,
legislation
is
vulnerable
to
a
court
challenge
for
failure
to
follow
the
proper
procedures.
Y
The
university
respectfully
request
that
council
send
this
rezoning
audience
back
to
the
planning
commission
for
further
review
and
refinement.
This
is
not
a
request
that
the
university
makes
lightly.
However,
as
currently
drafted,
the
ordinance
could
significantly
impede
university
development
objectives.
Y
We
we
and
other
stakeholders
have
additional
valuable
input
to
contribute
on
how
the
ordinance
can
better
align
with
university
and
community
plans
for
the
greater
good
of
oakland
city
planning
has
done
a
remarkable
job,
a
commendable
job
in
advancing
an
important
master
plan
and
rezoning
effort,
and
we
know
their
task
has
not
been
easy.
In
this
instance,
the
neighborhood
plan
and
community
plans
proceeded
simultaneously
with
an
enactment
of
a
zoning
legislation.
Y
Any
new
zoning
audience
ordinance
will
determine
the
future
of
a
region's
plan
innovation
district
in
the
surrounding
oakland
neighborhoods.
So
the
aspiration
should
be
to
enact
the
oakland
plan.
Schools,
the
zoning
legislation
should
not
be
approved
hastily
without
further
discussion
and
input.
Taking
this
back
to
the
planning
commission
will
provide
an
opportunity
to
refine
this
binding
legislation
that
will
have
lasting
impacts
for
oakland.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
A
Forgive
me
charles,
thank
you,
appreciate
you
being
here.
Thank
you
for
your
comment.
John
rhodes
will
be
our
next
registered
speaker
john
is
online.
He
wishes
to
register
comment
in
favor
of
the
legislation
and
john.
The
floor
is
yours.
A
Z
My
name
is
john
rhodes,
and
I
live
at
3030
wigan
street
in
polace.
Show
I
serve
as
the
chair
of
the
housing
and
development
committee
for
the
polish
hill
civic
association,
I'm
speaking
today
at
the
invitation
about
pdc,
and
my
comments
are
in
favor
of
expanding
bleeding
and
zoning
to
the
designated
areas
of
oakland.
Identifying
the
proposed
plan
polo
show
is
a
community
that
has
worked
hard
with
our
adjacent
neighborhood
group
partners
to
support
bringing
the
inclusionary
zoning
into
existence
in
lawrenceville
and
then
to
expand
it
to
polar
shell
and
bloomfield.
Z
We
all
thank
our
city,
councilmember
deb
gross
for
her
leadership
as
well
as
interviewing
for
his,
and
we
thank
city
council
as
a
whole
for
voting
to
bring
izad
to
our
neighborhoods.
Our
neighborhoods
are
like
oakland
in
that
we
all
have
a
long
history
of
being
places
where
families
of
any
income
level
could
find
a
home
inclusionary.
Zoning
is
an
important
tool
to
achieve
that
balance.
Z
A
AA
Of
the
real
estate
company,
our
company
has
holdings
in
retail,
restaurant,
storefronts
and
office
space
for
young
technology
companies
and
other
commercial
properties
in
oakland.
I'd
like
to
speak
today
from
the
perspective
of
proper
party
owners
and
tenants
on
forbes
avenue.
AA
First,
who
support
the
goals
of
the
pittsburgh
innovation
district,
incorporation
into
the
oakland
plan,
this
uce
to
become
the
innovation
district,
and
we
encourage
city
council
to
support
a
more
robust
and
competitive
zoning
designation
for
the
portsmouth
corridor.
This
will
help
create
a
critical,
massive
innovation
space.
What
we
would
look
at
is
wet
labs
and
research
and
development
space
to
allow
openly
compete
nationally
globally.
AA
In
the
postcode
competition
for
the
next
generation
of
innovation
economy,
tenants,
others
might
be
greeting
against
east
liberty
or
the
strip,
but
austin
and
boston
barcelona,
because
it's
a
worldwide
competition
to
break
the
next
level
of
innovation.
AA
AA
innovation.
Pittsburgh
currently
runs
this
initiative
for
us,
and
I
could
not
be
prouder
of
all
that
they
have
accomplished
it's
important
to
note
that
the
innovation
district
zoning
density
issue
is
not
intended
as
a
zero-sum
game,
where
the
success
of
the
business
community
comes
at
the
expense
of
the
residents
and
neighbors.
AA
The
new
zombie
code
needs
to
encourage
the
workforce
to
live
work
and
play
in
oakland.
Our
company
is
old
enough
to
remember
that.
A
generation
ago
the
under-occupied
residential
community
in
oakland
was
the
backbone
of
the
tenants
retail
customer
base.
Forbes
avenue
was
lined
with
small
businesses,
bakeries,
grocery
shops,
sit-down,
restaurants
and
jazz
clubs.
AA
AA
I
would
like
to
thank
you
for
your
time
and
we
can,
as
previous
speakers
have
mentioned,
look
to
other
cities
around
the
country
in
the
world
that
have
had
success
by
creating
this
18-hour
day,
activity
of
retail
and
restaurants
and
business
opportunities.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
henry
appreciate
your
comments.
Our
next
registered
speaker
is
amethy
sandstrom,
who
wishes
to
register
comment
in
favor
amothy
is
not
on.
Thank
you.
How
about
carol
hardiman
carol
is
not
with
us.
Helen
gerhart
is
hi
helen.
You
are
our
next
registered
speaker
wishing
to
register
comment
on
the
legislation.
F
A
To
have
you
here,
ron
levick,
you
are
our
next
registered
speaker
wishing
to
offer
comment
in
favor.
AB
There
we
go
okay,
hi,
my
name
is
ron
levick
and
I've
been
a
business
and
building
owner
for
over
30
years
on
forbes
avenue.
I
initially
supported
this
proposed
legislation,
but
I've
changed
my
mind.
I
agree
with
you
councilman
krauss,
that
this
zoning
change
is
overwhelming
and
I
request
more
time
for
further
review
by
city
council.
AB
A
Thanks
ron
appreciate
it,
our
next
registered
speaker
would
be
andrew,
molar
mole
nar.
Forgive
me
do
we
have
andrew.
He
is
not
on
how
about
mary
mackenzie.
A
R
R
I've
lived
in
oakland
for
45
years,
starting
out
as
a
pitch
student
in
1962
and
raising
my
family
of
four
children
here,
and
I
just
think
that
chevy
farms
is
a
jewel
in
pittsburgh's
crown
and
should
be
preserved
by
the
city
for
future
families,
which
is
currently
how
it
was
up,
and
I
want
to
express
my
support
for
both
the
testimony
of
norm,
cleary
and
broad
squares,
and
that
is
all
I
have
to
say.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
A
Mary
thank
you
for
taking
the
time
to
be
here
today.
I
appreciate
it.
Mr
shuli,
you
appear
to
be
our
last
registered
speaker
for
me.
A
Is
mr
shirley
on
no
okay
we'll
come
back
to
mr
shirley
if
he
should
join
us,
so
madam
clerk
help
me
out
here:
let's
go
back
over
the
list
to
those
who
may
have
joined
us
that
were
not
here
previously.
A
A
A
O
Get
the
invitation
to
speak,
I'm
the
executive
director
at
a
former
resident
myself
and
just
wanted
to
support
our
neighbors
in
oakland
for
the
expansion
of
inclusionary
zoning
into
oakland.
O
I
know
I've
talked
about
this
a
lot,
but
you
know
I
just
want
to
remind
council
that
we're
in
a
housing
crisis
with
the
expiration
of
rent
assistance
funds
and
the
expiration
of
eviction
moratorium
we're
in
the
midst
of
a
large
upsurge
and
evictions
right
now.
O
We
need
solutions
to
address
this
crisis
iv
is
a
modest
proven,
effective
policy
used
all
across
the
country
for
decades
it
was
a
key
recommendation
of
the
city's,
affordable
housing
task
force,
local
state
stakeholders
and
national
experts
modeled
an
appropriate
policy
for
pittsburgh,
which
again
recommended
the
10
affordability
requirements,
city-wide
and
even
15
in
strong
market
neighborhoods,
and
we
know
and
learn.
So
this
is
this
policy
is
already
working
as
well
as
in
other
neighborhoods
covered
by
the
ordinance
within
the
last
couple
months.
O
Even
we've
had
two
major
projects
come
across
our
desk
that
will
be
advanced
in
lawrenceville,
soon,
they're,
subject
to
the
requirement
for
time
and
time
again
that
this
is
from
developers
themselves
saying
this
is
a
modest
policy,
a
reasonable
policy
that
will
not
stop
development,
and
I
think
it's
good
to
have
this
expanded
to
other
neighborhoods,
so
we're
offering
consistent
expectations
across
the
city
for
developers,
which
makes
all
of
our
work.
I
think
easier,
and
I
want
to
recommend
the
city.
O
You
know,
follow
the
recommendations
and
pass
inclusionary
zoning
city-wide
and
then
the
last
point
I
just
made
in
response
to
some
other
comments
about
you
know
the
voluntary
versus
mandatory.
This
has
been
well
studied
across
the
country.
Voluntary
policies
are
already
in
place
here
in
pittsburgh.
O
I
don't
think
they've
been
exercised
very
often
so
again
we're
in
a
housing
crisis.
That
is
the
reason
why
we
need
to
have
a
mandatory
policy.
We
have
solutions
that
actually
help
to
address
the
problem
and
we
should
take
advantage
of
those
because
we
we
know
this
policy
really
does
make
a
difference.
Thank
you.
AC
AC
AC
2017
through
2021,
I
managed
affordable
apartments
in
oakland.
During
that
time
I
saw
first
hand
every
single
day
the
huge
demand
and
limited
availability
of
affordable
housing
in
oakland.
So
I'm
speaking
on
behalf
of
the
inclusionary
zoning
overlay
for
oakland,
our
waiting
lists
were
hundreds
of
people
long
and
there
were
a
few
other
places
in
the
neighborhood,
with
departments
that
had
less
than
market
rate
rent
and
were
appropriate
for
non-students
or
accepted
section
8
based
vouchers.
AC
Oakland
is
a
rich
neighborhood
of
major
transit
routes,
important
cultural
institutions
and
lots
of
employment
opportunities.
It
is
a
neighborhood
that
not
just
students
want
to
live
in,
but
it's
difficult
for
families,
working
people
and
even
long-term
residents
to
find
affordable
and
appropriate
housing.
AC
Are
opening
up
oakland
to
much
needed
high-density
construction
and
affordable
housing
needs
to
be
a
part
of
these
projects?
We,
you
know
it
works.
We
know
that
they're
still
going
to
build
these
buildings
with
the
ic
overlay,
so,
let's
make
sure
we
are
building
with
opportunities
for
everyone.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Hey.
A
A
C
Anyone
who
you
know
there
were
the
people
that
were
into
the
three
new
zoning
districts,
which
received
one
notice.
They
received
a
notice
that
their
property
was
being
proposed
to
be
rezoned
to
one
of
those
three
new
districts
for
residents
of
or
property
owners
in
oakland
that
were
not
part
of
one
of
those
areas.
For
those
three
new
districts.
C
They
received
a
notice
around
the
incl
around
solely
the
inclusionary
zoning,
whereas
you
know
people
that
were
getting
re-zoned
for
both
so
just
to
provide
some
clarification
on
that
note,
and
you
know
all
property
owners
did
receive
that
notice.
I
know
there
were
comments
around
specific.
You
know,
for
example,
pit
not
receiving
notice.
We
didn't
check,
they
did
receive
notice
for
both
the
include
the
changes
in
the
in
the
inclusionary
zoning
and
the
changes
to
the
zoning
districts.
So
you
know
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
procedurally,
you
know.
C
Obviously
there
are
questions
that
we
can
ask
our
own
content,
but
procedurally
notices
did
go
out,
and
that
was
to
some
of
those
points
of
you
know
just
to
provide
some
clarification
to
those
those
points
of
notice.
That's
why
there
were
two
different
notices
that
went
out,
and
some
people
only
received
the
inclusionary
zoning
notice,
because
their
properties
were
only
being
changed
by
the
addition
of
the
inclusionary
zoning
overview.
A
It
just
begs
to
the
the
subject
matter
briefing
for
members
that
that
need
to
incorporate
understand
the
process,
understand
the
responsibility
and
the
possible
impact
of
decision
that
we're
making.
This
is
a
massive
undertaking
and
I
knew
it
was
going
to
be
big,
but
even
I'm
I
have
to
admit
I'm
overwhelmed
by
what
I
was
presented
with
today.
So
I
again
will
work
with
the
clerk
to
schedule.
Zoning
staff
to
meet
with
the
members
of
that
represent
oakland
in
complete
keeping
with
sunshine
and.
A
There,
but
just
to
understand
more
what
we're
asking
to
do.
The
decision
we're
asking
to
to
make
the
repercussions
and
the
responsibility
that
we're
undertaking
by
making
that
decision
did
members
wish
councilwoman
gross
jewish
and
strasburger.
Please.
M
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
I
want
to
ask
some
questions
that
I
don't
necessarily
need
the
answers
to
today,
but
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
kind
of
like
the
presentation
and
then
some
of
the
I
think,
parts
that
are
in
this
zoning
proposal
bring
back
questions
that
I
have
about
my
own
district
and
and
kind
of
this,
our
desire
to
increase
affordability,
but
also
to
manage
densification
and
align
with
transportation
projects
and
do
the
kind
of
work
that
city
planning.
That's
why
we
have
a
department
of
city
planning.
M
M
This
is
a
quote
from
them.
To
me.
Wall
street
gave
us
a
hundred
million
dollars.
We
analyzed
every
census
tract
in
the
united
states
and
we
only
want
to
buy
and
build
in
lawrenceville
and
then
boom
overnight.
They
bought
13
acres
of
lawrence
at
a
very
significant
site.
Right
across
from
arsenal
middle
school.
M
M
This
is
the
beginning
of
kind
of
affordability,
awareness
really
heightened
awareness
about
affordability,
issues
in
lawrenceville,
I'm
talking
back
2017
20
2016,
maybe
even
when
it
started,
and
they
just
said.
No,
no
thank
you,
and
so
they
built
the
first
phase
that
faces
arsenal
middle
school
so
really
front
facing
on
butler
street.
They
built
250
units
with
all
luxury
rent.
B
M
Not
right
so
it's
only
new
construction,
whether
it's
a
significant
renovation
or
brand
new
construction
on
an
empty
space.
It
applies
to
those
new
construction
units.
M
I
just
wanted
to
say
that,
and
so
thank
you
for
nodding
your
head
director
that
I
said
that
as
hopefully
clearly
and
accurately
as
I
could,
but
listening
to
the
discussion
and
now
for
months
and
and
really
you
know
us
all
having
to
vote
on
behalf
of
this
rezoning
in
oakland
also
calls
to
mind
a
kind
of
open-ended
question
that
I
haven't
been
able
to
answer
with
my
staffing
resources,
because
I'm
famous
for
asking
a
lot
of
questions
well
beyond
the
capacity
of
my
three
very
busy
staff
people
to
answer-
and
I
would
just
really
like
to
see-
and
I'm
sure
you
you
guys-
probably
have
it
at
your
fingertips
or
gis-
does
a
kind
of
population
density
map
and
especially
population
density,
changing
over
time.
M
So
I've
had
probably
2000
residential
units
built
newly
constructed
in
the
strip
district
in
the
last
six,
seven
years.
Of
course,
all
luxury
rent
where
there
was
no
one
living
mostly
before
in
the
warehouses
and
areas
train
yards
or
some
et
cetera
on
the
on
the
riverfront,
there's,
also
been
twelve
hundred
brand
new
units
added
in
lawrenceville
proper
in
the
last
10
years.
I
just
got
a
spreadsheet
from
the
director
of
permits,
licenses
and
inspections.
Thank
you,
director,
kinter.
M
There
is
no
new
construction,
there's
no
350-unit
apartment
building
that
has
plopped
down,
but
there
are
teeny
tiny,
townhouses
all
crammed
in
side
by
side,
and
it's
my
impression
that
that
little
part
across
the
street
from
children's
hospital
when
you've
crossed
into
bloomfield
and
you're,
go
on
friendship
avenue.
And
you
can
you,
don't
you
never
even
turn
in
those
streets
because
they're,
it's
almost
like
venice
they're
like
little
diagonal
streets
if
they
were
canals
that
would
be,
like
venice,
has
a
population
density
again.
M
This
is
my
impression,
my
recollection
from
the
2010
census
that
that's
a
population
density
of
about
15
000
people
per
square
mile
in
that
little
patch.
So
I
think
I
would
like
to
see
proof
that
our
new
construction,
no
matter
how
tall
like
what
densities
are
we
achieving
and
to
see
either
so
look
at
existing
densities.
M
I
looked
at
the
density
map
and
last
year's
discussion
of
that
kind
of
quadrant
of
oakland
that
you
know,
parts
of
these
proposals
are
for
and
it's
I
think,
nearly
that
high
right
now,
and
so
I
believe
that
in
places
where
we
have
some
of
this
new
construction
we're
not
actually
increasing
density
unless
it
was
like
on
an
empty
train
yard
or
something
previously.
So
if
you
could
get
that
for
us,
I
think
it
would
be.
It
would
be
educational
for
me
and
it's
I've
been
long.
M
I've
had
this
open-ended
question
that
I
haven't
been
able
to
answer,
and
then
thirdly,
I
really
was.
I
had
the
exact
same
question
at
one
of
your
renderings
that
one
of
the
callers
did.
When
I
looked
at
it,
I
thought
that
rendering
is
called
an
elevation
rendering
because
it
shows
a
sideways
view
of
buildings
to
see
how
tall
they
are,
and
I
thought,
but
that's
why
it
that
site
isn't
level
what
the
rendering
is
level
as
if
as
if
the
land
was
level.
M
But
it
isn't,
and
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
to
see
how
it
would
really
look,
and
I,
of
course
I
have
a
very
steeply
sloped
district
as
well
so
in
the
future,
especially
for
big
projections
of
large
pieces
of
the
city.
It
seems
like
it
would
be
better
to
have
a
rendering,
if
it's
possible,
to
do
before
the
briefings,
incorporating
topography.
C
And
I
can
respond
to
that
last
point.
I
think
the
earlier
points
you
you
know
are
all
ones
that
I
think
you
were
just
providing
clarification.
If
anything
else-
and
you
know
obviously
some
more
information
that
planning
can
provide
to
you
all
in
many
of
the
schematics
that
you
that
were
shown,
we
actually
did
include
elevation
change
in
there.
There
is
really
the
main
elevation
change
that
is
in
the
areas
that
were
asked
by
the
planning
commission
for
additional
study.
C
AA
AD
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
I
too
look
forward
to
a
robust
discussion
and
q
a
at
the
briefing,
because
there
is
a
lot
here.
D
B
AD
Also
wanted
to
thank
all
of
the
speakers
who
came
out
all
the
people
who
offer
public
comment,
because,
even
in
listening
and
taking
lots
of
notes
today,
I've
learned
a
lot
about
what,
where
the
community
is
on
many
of
these
zoning
amendments
and
proposals.
AD
Generally
speaking,
I
am
you
know,
I
recognize
that
oakland
is
unique
because
it
is
a
downtown,
it's
the
second,
it's
the
third
largest
downtown
in
the
state
of
pennsylvania,
commonwealth,
commonwealth
of
pennsylvania,
right
behind
philadelphia
and
and
pittsburgh's
downtown,
and
it
is
a
residential
neighborhood
right.
It
is
both
so
so
it
is,
it
is
unique.
You
know
the
oakland
plan
recognizes
that
it
is
a
unique
situation
and
and
our
zoning
amendments
need
to
as
well.
AD
So
I
look
forward
to
delving
into
these
details
and
I
think
you
know
discussing
some
changes
that
were
recommended
today
and
and
seeing
you
know
the
the
extent
of
the
changes
that
are
necessary,
but
I
am
in
general,
in
favor
of
slowing
down
the
process
to
some
extent
so
that
we
can
really
work
through
these
details
and
make
the
changes
that
are
necessary.
AD
AD
A
A
M
I
apologize
thank
you.
Could
anyone
here
at
the
table
speak
to
the
calendar
of
the
clock
that
we're
on.
A
C
I
am
trying
to
look
that
up
right
now.
I
don't
know
if
kate,
who
is
on
the
call
as
well,
might
be
able
to
access
that
more
quickly
than
I
can,
but.
E
Okay,
yes,
I
can
give
you
an
accurate
answer.
So
city
council
shall
hold
a
public
hearing
within
120
days
of
the
planning
commission's
action
on
the
application
unless
the
applicant
has
agreed
unless
we've
agreed
to
an
extension
of
time
and
that
will
be
october
15th
of
2022.
So
that's
just
for
the
public
hearing.
C
W
A
Yeah
there
are,
maybe
that's
why
I
have
two
times
that
have
been
discussed
with
me
and
I
don't
fully
comprehend
or
understand.
But
if
I
unders,
if
I
am
understanding
correctly,
council
is.
E
Yeah
something
administrator
I
mean:
does
it
make
a
difference
whether
they
close
the
public
hearing
or
not
today,
as
long
as
it's
closed
by
the
october
date,.
L
D
L
Can
you
guys
hear
me?
Yes,
okay,
sorry,
this
is
a
city
planning,
initiated
zoning
text,
amendment
and
the
you
know,
there's
the
requirement
for
the
hearing
and
the
timing
there.
But,
as
direct
deputy
director
nash
mentioned,
there
is
an
opportunity
for
the
applicant
to
agree
in
writing
for
to
record
an
extension
of
time.
L
The
same
thing
applies
for,
I
believe
for
the
city
council.
Sorry,
that's
the
city
council
hearing
so
well.
I
believe
that
we
that
we
can
just
extend.
L
C
Correct
yeah-
and
you
know
at
least
until
that
october
date
and
like
I
said
that
we
can
check
with
law.
If
that's
you
know,
and
you
know,
as
the
you
know
applicant
in
this
case
you
know
that
we
need
to
provide
some
extension.
If
it
goes
beyond
that
date
and
you
know,
then
I
think
you.
W
A
C
D
C
A
C
AD
W
AB
C
Doesn't
start
later,
that's
the
other
part,
and
that
was
the
other
part
that
I
had
noted
was
that
that
90-day
clock
will
get
confirmation
as
to
when
that
starts
for
city
council
to
make
a
decision
again,
as
the
zoning
administrator
stated,
with
either
120-day
clock
or
that
90-day
clock
there,
you
know
there
is
and
can
be
an
option
where
that's
extended
by
both
parties.
You
know,
being
the
you
know,
the
department
of
city
planning
introducing
the
amendment
and
city
council,
so
you
know,
I
think
that
they
are
the
applicant.
A
And
so
they
can
offer
extension
yeah.
C
So
we
will
we'll
get
confirmation
on
all
of
those
in
in
review
with
with
the
law
department
and
make
sure
that
that
comes
to
city
council.
As
early
as
we
can
respect.
A
It
yeah,
and
and
just
to
clarify
that
the
the
desire
for
additional
time
to
digest
is
not
to
obstruct
in
any
way.
It
is
to
understand
the
responsibility
of
the
decisions
we're
making
and
that
the
council
will
commit
to
completing
this
in
a
timely
manner,
but
with
full
understanding
of
the
decisions
we're
making
yeah
okay.
This
is
great.
So
with
that,
may
I
call
for
a
motion
to
recess
this
public
hearing.