Canton hired Angus in 2017, and has since merged its zoning and planning departments, hired a neighborhood planner and updated city zoning and planning codes. The 2016 plan also called for ...

The Canton of then wasn't perfect — redlining was applied early and often. Urban renewal destroyed and dismantled entire neighborhoods, leaving brownfields and broken promises in its wake.

“This is a really big project; it's a really big project for anybody's neighborhood,” Commissioner Brian Watkins said. “You're talking about probably one of the biggest developments in Canton.