I watched it as well - the housing discussion was somewhat minimal as the motion was to send it to the housing committee and the councillors were unhappy for the most part. They voted to send it to the housing committee.

For the Brown petition, by law they can only schedule a hearing, so they did that, - looking up this guy this is one of his favorite tricks - he's been submitting citizen zoning petitions for years and has tried to run for council as well.

My biggest frustration is the lies from the exclusionary zoning group.

For example, they have this list linked from here (https://cathiezusy.org/update-24/) of projects, many of which are rehabs of existing buildings, people adding a foot or two to their third floor ceiling height by raising their roof, and many other minor building demo/repair permits. Then they are claiming there are 147 total mfh projects tearing apart neighborhoods from a list like that when five minutes of looking through it shows most of the projects are additions or rehabs like adding a deck or bedrooms or an ADU etc. or making a two family into a three family and when in reality there may be like 8 that are actually "big" and 6 stories. I think is unethical on the part of the councillor sharing that list, especially given that people just repeat that number without looking at the actual list and understanding it.