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Planning commission outlines zoning recodification steps, flags potential policy changes
Summary
Todd Brasi of the planning commission told the Finance Administration Committee the zoning recodification is about 75% complete and is intended to improve usability; the effort is intended to be policy‑neutral but may surface policy changes for council review, including splits of the downtown district and consolidation of nonconforming-use rules.
Todd Brasi, a member of the borough planning commission, updated the Finance Administration Committee on July 17 about progress on a zoning recodification intended to make the borough's zoning code easier to use for applicants and staff. The commission and staff say the rewrite is meant to be policy neutral, but it may surface policy changes for the borough council to consider.
Brasi said the project reorganizes the code so a zoning district serves as the entry point linking to the rules that apply to a property, with building types and dimensional rules consolidated into tables. He…
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