City will not consider AES downzoning

Councilman Bill Brand Tuesday night revisited an idea first brought up by city planning staff six years ago – exploring the legal option of rezoning the AES power plant site so at some date in the future industrial use would no longer be permitted.Brand, the chief advocate for creating a park on the site, said that AES’s recently announced intentions to repower the technologically outdated power plant along Harbor Drive means that the city urgently needs to examine its legal options or