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Planning staff outlines multiple UDC amendments: landscape code, housing rules, lot standards and block‑length exceptions
Summary
Staff described ongoing work to simplify and right‑size landscape requirements, pursue housing affordability amendments, replace lot-type dimensional tables with clearer dimensional standards, and allow block‑length exceptions that provide pedestrian/bike connections as alternatives to vehicular links.
Charles Bloom told the council staff is working on several UDC amendments and expects to advance drafts and outreach in the coming months. Major items identified were: a landscape-code rewrite to encourage water-wise practices and simplify requirements; continued ‘right-sizing’ of housing regulations to reduce development…
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