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Planning Commissioners,
The City Council has wisely chosen to set a deadline of June for finalizing a draft of the Gateway Plan, Gateway form‐based code, and other General Plan updates. This is a very reasonable deadline. Following this timeline, final adoption is still a year away (and more than 2 years from when the first draft of the Gateway Plan was publicly released). But
meeting this deadline will require the Planning Commission to complete the remainder of its review in a more efficient and disciplined manner. The process proposed by Vice Chair Davies and Director Loya to accomplish this task is a reasonable one, and we encourage you to take it up at your meeting on Tuesday.
We remind you once again that the Gateway Plan is the most bike and pedestrian‐friendly, and the most climate‐
friendly, land use plan yet proposed in our region, and we strongly support it. Adoption of the Plan and its form‐based
code are a necessary step toward meeting the city’s housing, climate, and transportation goals, all of which require
significant and urgent changes to the status quo.
Thank you.
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Colin Fiske (he/him)
Executive Director
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities