Concord’s goal of rethinking the way housing and commercial development is allowed in the city, a program called Concord Next, may have dropped out of public view but it’s still going on, officials say.

“Staff is currently reviewing and refining the proposed draft ordinance,” wrote Deputy City Manager Matt Walsh in an email response to a Monitor query about the status of Concord Next.

Walsh said the city is awaiting word on an application for $99,685 from the InvestNH HOP (Housing Opportunity Planning) program to help complete the Concord Next ordinance as well as do associated updates to the city’s Site Plan and Subdivision Regulations.

“In accordance with the City Council’s FY2024 Budget Goals for the Community Development Department, Concord Next remains a priority. Schedule for the project will become clearer once the City receives more information about our pending HOP Grant application,” he wrote.

Concord Next is designed to help local neighborhoods use land more efficiently while the city population grows, often by allowing more housing units per acre with a mix of residential and commercial units, as well as reducing emphasis on roads, parking lots and traffic flow.

The first big proposal modeled after this approach, creating a walkable mixed-use development with 214 units on Fisherville Road, came up in February and was met with concern from some neighbors about traffic and effect on city services such as schools.

Two more recent proposals – the much larger redevelopment of Steeplegate Mall with 600 housing units and a mixed-use proposal for land along the Merrimack River with 900 housing units called Monitor Way – used the city’s new zoning goals as guidelines, developers said.