City planning staff told the Reynoldsburg Planning and Zoning Board on June 18 that it will present proposed zoning-code changes across two consecutive meetings in July and will use feedback from those sessions to draft amendments for City Council consideration. The schedule calls for draft language at the July 17 meeting and additional language at the July 31 meeting; staff said a third meeting may follow if necessary.

Staff said the approach aims to avoid a single multi-hour session by breaking the work into smaller chunks and gathering board feedback early in the code-review process. “So instead of doing like a massive, you know, several hour thing at once, what we're intending to do is, at the next planning and zoning board meeting … come with a chunk of some proposed changes, to talk about,” staff said.

After the two July meetings, staff said it will revise the draft based on board comments and then formally send the proposed amendments to City Council for the council-led portion of the review. Staff also noted schedule adjustments were made because the board does not meet the week of the Tomato Festival.