Concord: Vacant Kmart site named one of the city’s first targets in rezoning push to 1,000 new housing units

Concord is one step closer to rezoning a fraction of its higher-income, predominantly white neighborhoods — a change that will enable development of 1,000 new lower-income, multifamily units in areas boasting access to schools, parks, jobs and transportation by 2031.

The city has spent months exploring the feasibility of its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rezoning project, which will create a 20-acre zoning overlay district in Concord where developers and property owners can...