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Council gives staff direction on regional plan implementability; rejects map-level resort overlay, asks for PUD option and trails clarifications
Summary
City staff proposed changes to the draft regional plan to ease implementation; Council directed staff to keep the plan’s density/compatibility approach, rejected a map-level resort overlay, asked staff to add a PUD/PAD zoning tool action item, and accepted revised trails symbology.
City planning staff walked Council through detailed changes to the draft regional plan that would make it easier to implement at the front counter — including a simpler approach to land-use categories, a table linking future place types to compatible zoning, and proposed edits to the plan’s trails map.
Sarah Ducker, comprehensive and neighborhood planning manager, emphasized that the city must reconcile the plan (policy) with the city’s zoning and development code (implementation). Staff proposed four simpler density bands (low: 0–4 du/acre; medium: 5–14; medium-high: 15–30; high: 31+) and a compatibility table that would allow an applicant to use an existing compatible zoning category or meet the plan’s “future desired density/intensity.” Ducker and staff said the intent was to make front-counter decisions more predictable and to shorten staff reports for straightforward requests while reserving more extensive analysis for amendments that change plan categories.
A late-arriving and contentious topic was whether to…
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