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Planning commission debates minimum density, master‑plan requirements; staff to return with options
Summary
Commissioners discussed draft Land Development Regulation amendments on mandatory PUDs, minimum residential density and master plans after state law changes; no formal recommendation was made. Staff will present options including an 'undesignated land' approach, yield‑plan requirements and an access‑only safeguard for council consideration.
The South Burlington Planning Commission continued a technical but consequential discussion on draft amendments to the city’s Land Development Regulations (LDRs) that address mandatory planned-unit developments (PUDs), minimum residential density and master‑plan requirements.
Staff summarized the current and proposed regulatory framework: under prior rules many parcels larger than four acres were required to use a PUD tool (traditional neighborhood or conservation PUD) and conservation PUDs relied on transferring density from conserved land to a buildable area. Staff said the new state law (Act 47) changed allowable density on sewered land and made the conservation‑PUD mechanism impractical. Under the draft LDRs presented for public hearing, mandatory PUDs…
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