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Council approves Land Development Code changes to ease small-scale housing and standardize sign rules
Summary
The council adopted technical and substantive Land Development Code amendments to make signage content-neutral, adjust residential density rules to match state law, ease dimensional and driveway limits for small multifamily conversions, and clarify several administrative processes.
The Essex Junction City Council on Feb. 26 approved a package of Land Development Code amendments that city staff and the planning commission had developed over more than a year, aimed at easing barriers for small-scale housing and clarifying sign and design standards.
"One of the changes was that in out of the 2023 HOME Act, every place, every zoning district that allowed a single family house where there's water and sewer is supposed to allow for 4 units as well," said Chris Ewan, community development director, summarizing statutory-driven edits and corrections. The amendments correct an oversight for the MF-3 zoning district and standardize the…
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