Commission tweaks buffer‑zone matrix, easing some residential adjacencies and adjusting industrial buffers

Sep 10, 2026

The commission voted to change several buffer requirements in the zoning matrix — including lowering buffers between some residential adjacencies and adjusting light‑industrial adjacencies — after staff identified asymmetric entries that produced inconsistent results.

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Staff identified asymmetries in the buffer‑zone matrix where adjoining zoning districts had different obligations depending on which side was the subject property. Commissioners agreed some requirements were larger than necessary between residential categories and proposed a package of changes.

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