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Staff outlines extensive zoning-code amendments; Heritage District committee, shopping-cart standards and notice radius among topics
Summary
Planning staff on Jan. 11 presented a package of about 50 proposed zoning-code amendments for discussion, touching on Heritage District outreach, a South Maricopa overlay, shopping-cart rules, and expanded public notice.
Planning staff on Jan. 11 presented a package of proposed zoning-code amendments covering roughly 50 changes and asked the Planning and Zoning Commission for discussion and feedback.
Staff described the draft amendments as clarifications and modernizations to reduce ambiguity, align the code with state law, and add flexible alternative measures to meet the city’s policy intent. Significant elements discussed included revisions to Heritage District outreach, establishment of a new South Maricopa overlay district, elimination of a minimum two-story requirement in the Mixed‑Use Heritage Overlay, shopping‑cart design and retrieval standards for new developments, updated rules for mobile merchants to reflect state law, shipping‑container screening and…
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