Next week's Planning commission presentation is now online. Unfortunately, it's another light agenda.
The biggest item is an update to the historic preservation code. Unfortunately, the presentation is shockingly short and vague. I've noticed pretty shoddy admin work by the HRC compared to some of the other city committees, so I'm not sure if the problem is merely someone in a staff position doing a rush job, but the devil is in the detail when it comes to these things, and just saying that processes are going to be "streamlined" says very little. Or maybe these are changes coming from the Mayor's office. Regardless, this seems unacceptable given how it's being fast tracked.
The only other new thing is a proposal to turn a small temporary parking lot in South Side Works into a permanent surface lot. Looking over historic street views, this was just landscaping between two buildings until around 2020. The lot is for the Pitt building immediately adjacent. While there's an argument that there's no surface lot for the building (the surface lots behind are owned entirely by the new apartment building Connection at Southside) there's ample parking within like two blocks, and I don't like creating a permanent curb cut/turn off of a high-traffic part of East Carson Street. Still, Pitt's proposing this, so it'll likely sail through.
In some other news,
apparently the proposed Wexford Science + Technology office building in Oakland is not yet dead. They're still working through zoning and design, and it sounds like they need more leasing commitments (at least 60%) to warrant groundbreaking.
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