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Planning commission recommends ordinance to ease trailhead permitting across borough zones, rejects adding OSB in initial motion
Summary
The commission unanimously recommended an ordinance to define and allow organized trail facilities more broadly under conditional use review in several zones; an attempted motion to add Outdoor Space Buffer (OSB) as a covered zone failed for lack of a second before the commission passed the ordinance as drafted, 7–0.
Mayor Grier Hopkins and Assemblymember Kelly jointly sponsored an ordinance the planning commission recommended on May 27 to make it easier to establish developed trailheads — called “organized trail facilities” in the draft — across more borough zoning districts through the conditional-use process.
Staff planner Katie Whiteside told commissioners the ordinance creates a definition for “organized trail facility,” clarifies that these facilities are distinct from trails and trail access points, and expands where a conditional-use permit can be used to authorize developed trailheads that provide parking, kiosks, signage and similar infrastructure. Whiteside said the change is intended to reduce unsafe roadside parking, provide…
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