There’s a request for a variance to create gates for four communities on Bear Mountain. The staff report on this issue, attached to the agenda for Monday night’s Planning and Zoning (P&Z) meeting is clearly conflicted on what to recommend to the committee. City Hall staff note that the new Official Community Plan recommends an open and welcoming community, on the one hand, but advocates for security on the other, and that gated communities are seen as working both for and against those overriding principles by advocates and detractors. Further complicating the issue is the fact that three of the four gated communities have actually already been built, and these variances are being requested after the fact in those cases. But the facts to consider don’t stop there.
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