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Lacey staff outline wide-ranging zoning consolidations tied to comprehensive-plan update
Summary
City planning staff on June 11 presented draft zoning-code consolidations and text updates aimed at simplifying Lacey's zoning map and aligning it with the comprehensive plan and future land-use map.
City planning staff on June 11 outlined a suite of draft zoning-code changes intended to simplify Lacey's zoning map, better align zoning with the future land-use map and reduce internal duplication.
Shepherd, a senior planner, told the Planning Commission staff had identified consolidations and textual revisions driven by the goals of the comprehensive plan, public feedback, and the need to reduce the 35 separate zoning designations currently in the code.
The draft recommendations presented to the commission included a number of types of changes: moving shoreline-residential delineations into the Shoreline Master Program instead of showing them on the city zoning map; shifting "urban agriculture" from a standalone zoning designation into a conditional‑use framework; eliminating a village‑center zoning label where…
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