The power vacuum created by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s political unpopularity and the free-for-all it creates at City Hall was on full display Thursday.

Johnson will be forced to settle for a far weaker version of a long-stalled granny flat ordinance that is likely to result in just a fraction of the affordable housing he had hoped to produce.

And the mayor’s plan to use the resignation of City Council deal Walter Burnett to appease critics and shore up his base in the progressive and African American communities was derailed by the leadership vacuum caused by Johnson’s diminished clout.

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The thorny issue of accessory dwelling units has been kicking around the Council for years.

Johnson had vowed to do “everything in my power” to ignore what he viewed as parochial interests and d

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