Woodland Park planners refine temporary use permit rules, clarify review paths and timelines

Woodland Park planners spent the bulk of a work session reviewing a rewritten Temporary Use Permit (TUP) chapter that keeps most existing rules but reorganizes procedures and tightens language about who decides and when.

The Planning Director, Karen, told commissioners the revisions are largely the old rules “restructured into the format that we are now using for all our various application types.” She flagged one state-driven change elsewhere in the code — replacing the term “family” with “household” because the state now limits regulating occupancy by familial relation.

Why it matters: The TUP chapter sets how temporary events, outdoor vendors and other short-term uses are permitted and reviewed. The rewrite clarifies which permits city staff can approve administratively and which must go to the City Council, and it keeps timing provisions (45-, 21-, and 14-day notice windows) that staff said are working in practice.

Key changes and clarifications - Review authority: Staff recommended, and commissioners generally accepted, that the Planning Director be named as the administrative reviewer; only a subset of TUPs would go to City Council. Karen said the city will review “all temporary use permits except for, like Lee said, the time exceeds 9PM,…