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Kahle's "Memory Lane" omits what happened in roughly the same timeframe as the CDSD staff fail.

Residents "drove the bus" in developing the Jefferson-Westside Special Area Zone, which led to an 80 to 5 (approx.) vote of the JWN members and an 8-0 vote of the City Council. 

This zone's standards passed muster with flying colors, cost a fraction of the CDSD and SW-SAZ processes, ensures compatibility of new, infill development and allows a substantial increase in the number of dwellings. For example, we created the _only_ zone that allows alley-access-only dwellings.

Like current planning staff, Kahle appears ignorant of the successful community-driven processes by which Neighborhood Refinement Plans were drafted by Planning Teams of neighborhood residents, local business principals and representatives of neighborhood schools and social services.

The difference between the CDSD process and RPs is that stakeholders drove the bus, and staff provided _genuine_ support.

-- Paul