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Planning commission begins multi-month cleanup of Unified Development Ordinance and reviews comprehensive plan notes
Summary
The Planning Commission reviewed an Fanning planner’s annotated Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) with roughly 600 notes, divided editing assignments among members, and discussed next steps for formal adoption and county coordination.
The Town of Clayton Planning Commission on Tuesday began a staged rewrite and cleanup of its Unified Development Ordinance and reviewed notes on the town’s Comprehensive Plan, assigning sections for members to edit and clarifying procedural steps for formal adoption.
Commissioners said the planner’s review found more than 600 comments and small inconsistencies — for example, the UDO requires a 5-foot fence around installed swimming pools while the speaker cited the state law as 4 feet — that the commission plans to resolve by technical edits and policy discussions.
The process matters because the UDO governs zoning, development standards and variance outcomes in the town and must be coherent and…
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