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Weston planning bodies recommend ordinance loosening driveway setbacks in residential districts
Summary
The Village of Weston Plan Commission and its ETZ committee voted Dec. 9 to recommend that the village board approve amendments to municipal code chapters 71 and 94 that reduce certain residential driveway setbacks and clarify public-works authority to approve wider driveways.
The Village of Weston Plan Commission and the village's extraterritorial zoning committee voted Dec. 9 to recommend the village board adopt an ordinance amending chapters 71 and 94 of the municipal code to change residential driveway standards.
Planning staff said the 2015 code had become “extremely restrictive” in places and proposed reducing several side-yard and pavement setbacks to give homeowners more flexibility. Jennifer, planning staff, said, "This is' one that we Jennifer and I worked together with Mark on, trying to clean up, the driveway standards, as they in 2015, code became extremely" restrictive in relation to property lines.
The amendments include a revised table of hard-surface setback requirements that, in single-family small and two-family districts, reduces certain…
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