The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors on Aug. 25 approved an amendment to the county zoning ordinance to allow accessory dwelling units, adopting the measure on its third and final reading.
The ordinance, identified in the meeting as ordinance 08252501, passed on a roll-call vote after a brief procedural check for correspondence. The supervisors indicated there was no correspondence on the item before a supervisor moved to approve and another seconded the motion. A roll-call vote was taken and the motion passed.
The change was presented as an amendment to the county zoning ordinance relating to accessory dwelling units; meeting discussion did not record additional substantive debate or specific changes to ordinance text during the public meeting. The board did not receive any written correspondence on the ordinance at the time of the vote, according to the meeting record.
The ordinance was approved as a final reading; the board did not identify follow-up steps in the meeting record.