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Commission recommends narrowing RPO calculations to exclude street rights‑of‑way; one commissioner dissents
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended City Council approve a limited change to the Resource Protection Overlay rules so that public rights‑of‑way (and major utility corridors) are excluded from resource preservation calculations for subdivision developments.
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend that City Council approve a zoning code text amendment (PZ2400216) to modify Resource Protection Overlay (RPO) applicability so that certain rights‑of‑way and major utility corridors are excluded from resource calculations for subdivision development.
Tiffany, city planning staff, told the commission the RPO was originally applied to large vacant parcels in the 1990s and focuses on three ordered resource priorities: floodplains, slopes and forest resources. Staff said standards…
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