September 21, 2018 -- Some Pico Boulevard business owners are growing increasingly worried the busy thoroughfare will be downzoned as part of a plan City officials are embarking on to help preserve the neighborhood.

City planning officials say the fears surrounding the plan -- which is meant to address a wave of gentrification Pico Neighborhood residents worry is threatening the character and affordable housing supply -- are unfounded.

"We are at the very beginning of the process," Planning Director David Martin told the Lookout Friday. "There are definitely no proposals on the table to make any changes in zoning.

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