Multi-Family Housing Dashboard

At a glance

What: the city's new online dashboard of multi-family housing projects (about 245 properties) under the multi-family housing ordinance, produced in response to Zusy's April and August policy orders (City Manager response on policy 26-81 and awaiting report 26-55, as read in the captions).
Where it stands: City Manager's response placed on file 8-0 on Oct 20.
Next: staff are working to make building permit applications public so the dashboard can link to them; no timeline given.

Zusy's own tracker lists 154 properties (129 confirmed) with impacts such as parking, trees and renderings. The dashboard includes any project that has started an official city process, including permit applications not yet granted, but only impacts readily available in permit records.
McGovern asked about outreach (press release, social media; he urged a mailing) and inconsistent answers between departments. Staff: regular front-line permitting coordination, a Harvard-backed review of the small business permitting process, and a community engagement manager as liaison.
Zusy asked for more inspectors, longer records room hours, a single point of contact, pre-project and permitting meetings and stamped drawings. Nolan wants all building permit applications online as soon as possible.
City Manager Huang credited the council's orders and noted staff are learning how to use AI tools internally.

About 15 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-20 - Continued City Council Meeting	15

2026-10-20 - Dashboard reported on; permit records to be made public; placed on file 8-0.