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Council staff recommend keeping city-center development-agreement option to preserve flexibility
Summary
Staff proposed reviving a city-center overlay development-agreement approach to allow council discretion on stepbacks, public benefits and design tradeoffs; council discussion focused on geographic limits and process safeguards.
City planning staff recommended maintaining a development-agreement option for Millcreek’s City Center overlay to give the council discretion to approve departures from some design standards when a proposed project delivers defined public benefits.
Assistant City Manager and Planning Director Francis Lilly told council members the updated zoning and subdivision code and a consolidated fee schedule are scheduled for council approval on April 28, with a proposed effective date of May 19 to allow staff time to update forms and the website. Lilly said the development-agreement…
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