City Council is pursing another recommendation from the 2019 master plan re-examination that would encourage mixed-use development with apartments above ground-floor commercial and office uses along West Grand Avenue.
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Twenty properties — including at least three repeat offenders — were slapped with liens totaling almost $12,000 to recover costs related to city cleanup.
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series about the master plan re-examination report. This post focuses recommendations for the specific area of West Grand Avenue form St. Georges Avenue to Irving and Whittier streets.
Another 11 liens were or will be filed against properties to recover cleanup costs incurred by the city.
Monday’s vote to authorize the study of six potential redevelopment areas drew the biggest crowd to a City Council meeting in recent memory as well as the biggest split among the governing body and administration in several years.
Continue reading Officials spar over ‘plans’ for West Grand Avenue