Planning staff presents near-final rewrite of county zoning ordinance; public hearing set for Sept. 15

Jackson County planning staff on Wednesday presented what they described as the near-final draft of a comprehensive rewrite of the county zoning ordinance and asked commissioners to sign off on several remaining edits before a public hearing scheduled for Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. The draft reorganizes development rules, incorporates references to state and federal regulations, and adds diagrams and tables intended to make day-to-day permitting clearer.

Staff said the rewrite moves technical guidance out of scattered definition sections and into procedural chapters so administrators and applicants can find measurement rules, setback calculations and development standards in one place. The draft also consolidates conditional-use provisions into a single chapter, proposes renaming “special exceptions” to “conditional use permits,” and cross-references…