Board trims screening language, favors targeted view-shed approach rather than continuous buffer
Commissioners recommended replacing a continuous vegetative screen requirement with a targeted approach that focuses screening next to affected dwellings and allows waivers via view-shed studies or easements.
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The draft had required a continuous vegetative screen buffer within 1,000 feet of dwellings, borrowed from Johnson County language. Robbins and the commission discussed two waiver mechanisms: a view-shed study showing the dwelling is not visually affected, or a landowner waiver/easement.
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