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Committee advances zoning change allowing legacy landscape contractors to restore 2014 footprint after one violation
Summary
The Planning, Housing and Parks Committee voted 3‑0 to forward Zoning Text Amendment 2508 to the full council; the ZTA lets legacy landscape contractors in the rural cluster zone retain grandfathered status if they return total on‑site square footage to 2014 levels after one violation.
The Planning, Housing and Parks Committee on July 15 voted unanimously in committee, 3‑0, to forward a zoning text amendment that would let certain landscape contractors maintain legacy status in rural cluster (RC) zones if they restore the total square footage of on‑site operations to the footprint that existed on Oct. 30, 2014.
Councilmember Mink, the bill sponsor, said the change is intended to prevent small, local landscape businesses from losing grandfathered status because of minor layout changes or good‑faith mistakes. "It makes a small change in the code to create…
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