Masry’s Proposal for Plateau Wins Support

The City Council is pushing to get $7.5 million for affordable housing from developers in an agreement involving the environmentally sensitive Western Plateau.

Council members unanimously supported Councilman Ed Masry’s plan to ask developers to change certain terms of the complex land deal, which is still being negotiated. Currently, developers could be required to build 50 affordable housing units as part of a plan not to develop the plateau. Masry wants the developers to instead pay the city to build the housing units.

The council’s action Tuesday does not require them to do so; it only raises Masry’s plan as an option.