Seifer, who died on Tuesday, worked in the city’s Community and Economic Development Office from 1983 to 2011. Friends and colleagues said he built the foundation for sustainable community development.
Residents question whether the rezoning plans would help deal with Burlington’s housing shortage.
Construction on the South End road, decades in the making, cannot begin before Friday’s federal court hearing, a judge has ruled.
A handful of prominent groups sought this week to join the effort to halt the Champlain Parkway. Construction of the route through Burlington is projected to begin next month.
Relying on state funds, two local business owners announced a plan to clean up and develop a contaminated plot of land in the city’s South End.
Although the project still has to weather a legal challenge, officials say it could break ground as soon as this summer.
In addition to sparring over the continued fallout from the camp’s clearing last week, councilors sent a charter change about sex work to city voters for approval in March elections.
Three people, two of them campers, were arrested at the encampment on Friday.
Pine Street Canal and Commerce Street Plume toxic waste Superfund sites are two of 14 in the state.
Judge Samuel Hoar of Chittenden Superior Court plans to rule whether the campers and the city can present evidence in the lawsuit.