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Planning Commission amends zoning rules for group shelters and adds PRD buffer requirement

2102665 · January 10, 2025
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Summary

The commission approved changes to the zoning ordinance that define and regulate "special institutional care facilities," and separately added a 20-foot landscape buffer requirement for PRDs that abut certain residential districts.

At its Jan. 9, 2025 meeting, the Smyrna Municipal Planning Commission approved amendments to multiple sections of the town's zoning ordinance to address a previously unclassified category of uses and to codify a landscape buffer requirement for PRDs.

The commission approved changes to Article 2 (sections 2.020 and 2.03511), Article 4 (section 4.010.2.g), Article 5 (section 5.053.3) and Article 7 (section 7.061.14). The amendments add a definition for a "group shelter," create parking requirements for the category described as "special institutional care facilities,"…

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