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Stow planning officials push large zoning rewrite; council raises questions on dispensary buffers, lot‑size cuts and mixed‑use overlay
Summary
Planning department and consultants presented major draft changes to Stow City’s zoning code — consolidating commercial and industrial districts, shrinking minimum residential lot sizes and creating mixed‑use and planned‑development overlays — while council members asked for more definitions and asked planners to preserve protections around schools and neighborhoods.
Planning staff walked Stow City Council’s planning committee through draft chapters of a comprehensive zoning code rewrite on June 26, proposing consolidated base districts, smaller minimum lot sizes, and two new overlay tools intended to encourage more flexible infill and pedestrian‑oriented development.
Planning Director Mister Herman and consultant staff described major changes including: consolidating eight commercial districts down to three and combining industrial I‑1 and I‑2 into a single industrial district; reducing minimum residential lot sizes (R‑1 from 20,000 to 15,000 square feet; R‑2 from 16,000 to 10,000; R‑3 from 12,000 to 7,000); abolishing minimum lot sizes for commercial and industrial parcels; adding a public institutional district for government and school properties; and creating a “major plan development” zoning…
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