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Commission defers ordinance amendment to separate school regulations from other institutional uses after lengthy debate
Summary
Planning staff proposed removing the special‑use permit requirement for K–12 schools and creating clear design standards; commissioners deferred the amendment to allow staff and council coordination on thresholds, portable limits and specific uses.
The Planning Commission on April 9 deferred action on a proposed zoning ordinance amendment that would separate K–12 school uses from other institutional group assembly uses, eliminate the Board of Zoning Appeals’ special‑use permit requirement for most schools, and set clearer standards for buffering, building height and certain thresholds for rezoning to a planned development.
Planning staff presented the draft ordinance and explained three circumstances that would still require rezoning to a Planned Neighborhood Development (PND) or Planned Unit Development (PUD): (1) when a school use is proposed on a property that has never hosted a school before; (2) when an addition or accessory structure of 50,000 square feet or greater is proposed; and (3) when athletic fields with lighting or amplified sound are…
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