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Planning commission debates new zoning code and replaces block-length rule with connectivity test
Summary
Planning staff proposed replacing block-length limits with a connectivity-scoring system and separate pedestrian standards as part of a comprehensive Title 14 rewrite; commissioners asked for more time and the item was deferred to next month for further review.
Planning Commission members spent the longest portion of their meeting on a proposed comprehensive rewrite of Title 14, the city zoning code, and on a new connectivity standard that would replace block-length limits used to control street connectivity. The commission did not vote on the text this week and deferred the zoning-code ordinances to next month to allow commissioners and stakeholders more time to review revisions.
Staff said the new approach would score internal site connectivity (counting 4-way, 3-way and dead-end intersections), require pedestrian and bicycle connections at a minimum frequency (a pedestrian/bike connection every 600 feet within a block), and require at least one external connection for every…
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