Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council on Wednesday approved millions in financial assistance for parks and schools projects and legal settlements, a measure to expand the area in which coach houses and conversion units are allowed and a restructuring of the city’s longtime independent agency that helps ensure permanent affordable homeownership. 

But the council delayed action on an ordinance regulating the hemp business.