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Commissioners direct UDO edits, keep planning board as first reviewer for rezonings and planned developments

5968652 · October 21, 2025
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Summary

After a months‑long review, the Board instructed staff to finalize changes to the Unified Development Ordinance: plan developments will be processed as conditional rezonings, site plans and subdivisions under 100 lots will be handled by staff with appeals to the board of adjustment, and neighborhood meetings will be retained.

The Board of County Commissioners gave preliminary approval to a set of changes to the county’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that will alter how some land‑use applications are reviewed and appealed.

Consultant Michael Harvey presented proposed process changes that would: (1) process plan developments as conditional rezonings so the planning board reviews and recommends but the board of commissioners remains the final legislative decision-maker on rezoning; (2) move most site‑plan approvals to staff review (with appeals to the board of adjustment) because…

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