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Council advances planning and zoning ordinance updates to full council after extended debate; several members request further review
Summary
The committee forwarded Planning & Zoning Commission recommendations to the full city council, including reorganized definitions and proposed changes to district regulations intended to expand housing flexibility; several councilors requested targeted follow-up and narrower review of items that would convert formerly conditional uses into permitted ones.
The committee reviewed recommendations from the Planning and Zoning Commission and the city’s zoning audit, which propose reorganizing Chapter 11 definitions and changing district regulations to expand housing opportunities and reduce redundancies in the ordinance text.
Planning staff (Community Development Coordinator Jenny) and Planning & Zoning Chair Mary McReynolds explained that the updates are intended to modernize language, reduce repetition, and increase permitted housing opportunities (for example, allowing mixed residential/nonresidential uses in some older building types). McReynolds noted these changes would better enable reuse of older mixed-use buildings.
Several councilors sought clarification and expressed…
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