Planning commission moves to remove hilltop/ridgetop protections from draft code
After hearing that the TPUDC ridge/hilltop definitions would make many existing neighborhoods nonconforming, the commission favored removing the hilltop/ridgetop subsections from the draft zoning language and asked staff to record that recommendation for the Board of Commissioners.
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Commissioners debated a TPUDC-standard hilltop/ridgetop provision (example elevation threshold 875 feet with high open-space percentages) and concluded it would be difficult to administer and would render many existing neighborhoods nonconforming. "With the requirements being that 80% of everything above that 875 be open space, most of our neighborhoods wouldn't be here today," one commissioner said while urging removal.
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