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Council adopts protective‑overlay zoning tool and tables contentious R3→R5 rezoning after strong neighborhood protest
Summary
Council added a protective‑overlay zoning district to city code and tabled a contentious rezoning request for about 14 acres at 30th Avenue and Monroe after residents filed protest petitions and asked for more outreach.
Hutchinson City Council on May 6 adopted a new protective‑overlay (PO) zoning tool to allow conditional restrictions layered on top of base zoning districts, and later heard a separate rezoning request for roughly 14 acres at the northeast corner of 30th Avenue and Monroe.
Protective overlay: new planning tool Director of Community Development Matt Williams presented an ordinance to add a protective‑overlay district to Chapter 27 of the city code. Council approved the ordinance after staff explained the overlay can be combined with any base zoning district to restrict uses, increase minimum lot widths or add other conditions intended to ease transitions between different neighborhood types. Williams said the PO is modeled on similar tools used in other Kansas cities and that planning staff and developers in the region are familiar with it.
Rezoning request and planning commission recommendation The rezoning case — filed by…
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