Planning commission forwards zoning technical amendments to city council

The Coldwater Planning Commission on July 22 voted to recommend that the City Council adopt a set of technical zoning amendments contained in Resolution 25-05. The commission approved the staff-recommended revisions after legal counsel reviewed wording adjustments requested at prior meetings.

Planning staff summarized the primary edits: removing a requirement that multiple entrances be designated (leaving a single principal entrance standard), adjusting a parking-reduction figure at legal counsel’s request, removing redundant language referring to bank parking because the ordinance already covered that situation, and simplifying bicycle-parking language by removing separate short-term and long-term categories. On-street parking and electric vehicle-charging requirements were left unchanged.

Staff said the changes are primarily grammatical and non-substantive except for the clarified parking-reduction numeric change and the entrance/facade language. The commission had previously reviewed the draft and made suggestions; staff presented the version that incorporated counsel’s revisions and asked for a recommendation to city council.

Commissioners moved and supported recommending Resolution 25-05 to council; the motion carried. The transcript records the commission’s action but does not list a recorded roll-call vote in the minutes read at the meeting.