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Summit planning board advances DRO review; committee to study ADUs, stormwater, lighting and images
Summary
The Summit Planning Board on March 24 discussed potential edits to the city's Development Regulation Ordinances, including adding flexibility to update DRO images, exploring accessory dwelling units, tightening stormwater standards and revising lighting rules for parks and downtown.
The Summit Planning Board on March 24 discussed a range of possible changes to the city's Development Regulation Ordinances, focusing on clarifying illustrations, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), stormwater management and lighting requirements for parks and downtown.
The board's vice chair, Paulson Alvarez, who is leading the DRO subcommittee, said the subcommittee is considering a provision that would give the board and city more flexibility to update images inside the DRO without submitting a full, separate ordinance package for each change. Alvarez said the goal is to replace or improve images that do not illustrate the text well.
Planning board attorney Warner cautioned that adding open-ended language to permit unspecified future images could be legally problematic. "It may be…
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