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Design Review Board backs UDO change to let zoning officer calculate development bonuses, urges council to pause vote
Summary
The Design Review Board issued a favorable advisory opinion on a proposed Unified Development Ordinance change that would move bonus-action calculations from the planning board to the zoning officer, and recommended the City Council consider tabling the Council vote so staff can reexamine bonus incentives.
The Saratoga Springs Design Review Board on Sept. 24 issued a favorable advisory opinion to the City Council on a proposed Unified Development Ordinance change that would shift the process for determining compliance with development bonus actions from the planning board to the city’s zoning officer.
Board member Susan Barton, representing planning staff, told the board the change would move the calculation that qualifies a project for a height bonus — for example square footage calculations tied to affordable housing or other incentives — from the planning board to the zoning officer (code administrator). Barton said that many bonus action…
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