Council adopts code change allowing updated street-design standards by resolution
Summary
Council adopted ordinance 2026-1 to permit the city to update street design cross-sections via resolution and approved Resolution 179 adopting four cross-section options (ribbon curb/swale and curb-and-gutter with core-sample guidance). The move aims to streamline permitting and allow case-by-case design decisions.
Council approved an ordinance (2026-1) and a companion resolution (179) to modernize street-design rules. The ordinance allows the city engineer, with planning staff, to adopt up-to-date cross-sections by resolution rather than by repeated code amendments; the resolution adopted four cross-section options and authorized core samples to determine the appropriate section.
Council emphasized the change is intended to be developer-friendly and technically driven: staff said core samples will avoid unnecessary geogrid requirements when subsurface conditions do not require them. Council voted unanimously to introduce and then adopt the ordinance and to approve the cross-sections by resolution.
Staff said the changes will reduce paperwork for common cases while preserving staff review and requiring joint sign-off by the public-works director and planning director on ribbon-curb versus curb-and-gutter choices for individual lots.
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