Committee forwards large zoning code update to council after debate on notice timing

Planning staff presented Text Amendment 26-6 (O-2026-35), a substantial citywide update combining mandatory state-code changes and staff-sponsored clarifications. The package includes new definitions (private event venue, motion picture production, commercial recreation complex), a farmers-market subsection under temporary uses, clarified conditional-use reapplication rules (one-year limit on reapplying substantially similar applications), a 20% parking-waiver option for certain residential and mixed-use projects with staff-established criteria, and several state-driven updates such as solar-energy project language and wireless facility provisions.