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Committee advances broad zoning-code amendments; staff outlines yearly review items
Summary
Planning staff reviewed provisions contained in Ordinance 010-2025 — the annual zoning text review — covering driveway widths, fences, frontages, sidewalks, landscaping, nonconformities, accessory parking limits, PRD and building typologies; the committee voted to advance the ordinance to the Committee of the Whole.
The Cleveland Heights Planning & Development Committee moved Ordinance 010-2025 to the Committee of the Whole after staff outlined a package of zoning-text amendments produced by the planning commission’s annual code review.
Assistant Planning Director Karen Knut told the committee the planning commission and staff reviewed a broad set of residential- and form-related standards in 2023 and 2024 and recommended changes intended to simplify regulations, address safety gaps and modernize definitions. “Zoning is a living, breathing thing,” Knut said, summarizing the commission’s approach.
Key code topics in Ordinance 010-2025, as described by staff and discussed in committee:
- Sidewalks and shared-use paths: Staff said the current code does not require sidewalks in many places; planning…
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