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Mount Pleasant board adopts comprehensive rewrite of residential zoning code
Summary
The Village Board approved Ordinance 9-2025, consolidating residential districts, limiting multi-building parcels and changing lot coverage rules; residents urged delay and more public review during the hearing.
The Village of Mount Pleasant board voted to approve Ordinance 9-2025 on June 23, 2025, revising the village's residential zoning rules to consolidate several district categories, move from lot-coverage to impervious-surface limits and generally require that individual residential buildings be placed on separate lots.
The change is intended to simplify district definitions, reduce repeated variance requests and give village planners more oversight of multi-building residential projects, staff said. Robin (Village planner, filling in for Community Development Director Sam Schultz) told the board the rewrite "merges RH 1 and 2" and creates a new neighborhood-residential (RN) category aimed at small-lot and missing-middle housing. She said the update also…
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