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Council amends unified development ordinance to restrict outward‑swinging privacy gates, clarify garage and masonry rules and add water‑recycling requirementfor
Summary
The Greenwood Common Council unanimously approved amendments to Ordinance 25‑13 that restrict privacy fence gates from swinging into pedestrian or cycling infrastructure, clarify garage and masonry standards in residential design, and require water recycling as a low‑impact development measure for data centers.
The Greenwood Common Council voted unanimously to amend Ordinance 25‑13, a text amendment to the city’s Unified Development Ordinance, adopting several clarifications and new requirements affecting fences, residential design standards and special exceptions for data centers.
A staff presenter described two proposed amendments the council considered: one requiring private fence gates “must not swing outward across pedestrian or cycling infrastructure,” and another reinserting the word “trim” into a residential building design standard. The staff member said the advisory planning commission recommended the changes.
Councilmembers discussed several parts of the draft text. On garage prominence, staff explained the ordinance separates two measurements: the portion of the front elevation counted as garage area and the width of the garage door relative to the front elevation.…
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