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Planning staff propose targeted code cleanups to trash-enclosure setbacks, administrative relief and site-plan triggers
Summary
Planning staff presented proposed amendments to Chapter 135 of the Des Moines Municipal Code to clarify setback language for trash enclosures, align a design-alternative numeric threshold with prior code changes (raising administrative relief from 30% to 50%), and remove a site-plan trigger based on cumulative building-permit value; commissioners
Planning staff on Oct. 2 presented three focused amendments to Chapter 135 of the Des Moines Municipal Code intended as clarifications and technical fixes: (1) replace vague setback language for trash enclosures with specific dimensional language; (2) align a numerical threshold for administrative relief with a prior citywide policy change by increasing an eligible administrative relief threshold from 30% to 50% of numeric standards; and (3) remove a site-plan trigger tied to cumulative building-permit value (sometimes called cumulative permit value) while leaving other triggers—such as change of use, new development, and expansions—intact.
‘‘The first and third changes are…
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