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Warren County supervisors approve ad for three zoning text amendments, seek July 1 alignment with state law
Summary
County planning staff presented three zoning and subdivision ordinance text amendments—allowing most agricultural pursuits in commercial/industrial districts, updating subdivision plat review to match new state code, and narrowing application requirements—now advertised for public hearing to meet a July 1 state deadline.
Warren County planning staff told the Board of Supervisors that three ordinance text amendments will be placed on the consent agenda and advertised for public hearing "on the 20 fourth of this month" with the intent to have the changes in place before July 1.
The amendments would: allow agricultural pursuits by right in commercial and industrial zoning districts (with confined feeding operations and abattoirs treated specially), revise the subdivision plat review process to implement recent state code changes that assign administrative approval authority to a designated agent, and remove the word "subdivisions" from certain zoning application requirements while clarifying an administrative waiver for simple applications.
Planning staff said the agricultural change "is to align the zoning ordinance with a taxation text amendment you guys did earlier this year" and described how existing confined feeding operations or abattoirs would remain allowed as lawful, established uses…
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