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City staff urge code update, warn of new state rules on manufactured housing and other land-use items
Summary
Consultants recommended a code diagnostic and a likely consultant-led code rewrite to implement the comprehensive plan. Presenters summarized recent Texas legislative changes that affect local zoning authority, manufactured-home rules, and occupancy regulations; many bills tracked by staff did not apply to Commerce or did not pass.
Commerce — City planning consultants and staff at a June 3 workshop urged the council to pursue a focused zoning and subdivision code update and reviewed recent state legislative changes that affect local land-use rules.
David Jones of Freese and Nichols, who led the workshop—s code discussion, said a code diagnostic is the first step to identify conflicts between the draft comprehensive plan and the city—s existing development regulations. He described the diagnostic as an analysis that produces a prioritized —treatment plan— of code changes and recommended conducting zoning and subdivision updates together where possible to avoid conflicts between public improvements and private development standards.
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