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Independence council adopts downtown parking and zoning changes to limit use of on-street spaces
Summary
The Independence City Council adopted an ordinance amending multiple development-code subchapters to tighten downtown parking counts, allow angled on-street parking as an option, and adjust landscaping and buffering standards.
The Independence City Council voted to adopt an ordinance amending several sections of the city development code to narrow how on-street parking counts toward required parking in the downtown mixed-use and riverfront zones and to allow angled parking as a design option.
Council adopted Council Bill 2024-09, amending Independence Development Code subchapters 33 (mixed-use pedestrian-friendly commercial), 34 (downtown riverfront), 54 (buffering/screening/landscape), and 73 (parking), and declared an effective date. The ordinance will be filed as ordinance number 1620.
The change limits the use of on-street parking counts specifically to the mixed-use district and downtown riverfront zone and prevents counting…
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