“As you may know, CRTP represents nearly 700 individual members and supporters, as well as a number of organizational members in the local environmental and social services  sectors.”

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Commissioners,
As you may know, CRTP represents nearly 700 individual members and supporters, as well as a number of organizational
members in the local environmental and social services sectors. You have heard from us frequently throughout your
review of the Gateway Area Plan, Gateway Zoning Code, and General Plan updates. I won’t rehash all of our past
comments here, but I want to reiterate our strong support for the Gateway plan & code generally, and for most of the
General Plan updates as well.
Overall, this is a very strong package of land use reforms which will update the city’s plans and codes to reflect modern
best practices, stimulate much‐needed walkable housing development, and help position the city to mitigate future
climate chaos. We urge you to vote to recommend approval to the City Council.
Regarding specific topics which you may discuss on Tuesday, I will briefly remind you of CRTP’s positions:
 We support streamlined ministerial permitting for projects which meet the objective standards in the Gateway
code.
 We support allowing a broad mixture of land uses, except where those uses are clearly incompatible with a
walkable neighborhood, such as many automobile‐serving uses.
 We support a minimum building height of 3 stories without unduly restrictive stepback requirements.
 We support requiring building to the back of the pedestrian zone (build‐to lines).
 We support eliminating parking mandates in the Gateway Area and citywide.
 We support the higher minimum residential density proposed at your June 17th meeting.
 We support prohibiting new garage doors from facing street frontages and endangering pedestrians.
Thank you for all of your hard work. I look forward to seeing this plan move forward.
Colin
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Colin Fiske (he/him)
Executive Director
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities