Board debates 500‑foot residential setback; planning history and buffer rules clarified
Supervisors debated whether the county erred reducing residential setbacks from 1,000 feet to 500 feet and clarified that the ordinance requires half of the setback (250 feet) to be vegetated or retained prior to construction.
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Supervisor Coleman said she was uncomfortable that the adopted ordinance uses a 500‑foot setback to residential property lines after earlier proposals had called for 1,000 feet, and asked what technical analysis supported that change. "Were the distances derived from any particular modeling, fire safety considerations, visual impacts, or simply comparisons with other ordinances?" she asked.
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