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PCZBA prioritizes R-5 zoning review among comprehensive plan action items
Summary
At an implementation workshop the PCZBA identified reviewing R-5 zoning rules to allow more missing-middle housing as its top priority, and also discussed industrial-park zoning, ADUs, heritage trees and subdivision ordinance updates as near-term tasks.
The Village of Lake Bluff Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals held a workshop on May 21 to prioritize implementation actions from the draft comprehensive plan and flagged a review of R-5 zoning rules as the commission’s top focus.
Commissioners said examining R-5 regulations could unlock opportunities for modest multifamily or missing-middle housing where the village’s zoning and code provisions now limit density and housing-type options. Members also recommended parallel work on…
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