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Dorchester County Council adopts Complete Streets amendments to zoning and development standards
Summary
On Jan. 6 the Dorchester County Council gave third and final reading to Ordinance 25-1, incorporating Complete Streets design provisions into the county’s Zoning and Land Development Standards; the planning commission had recommended approval.
Dorchester County Council adopted Ordinance 25-1 on third and final reading at its Jan. 6 meeting, incorporating Complete Streets provisions into the county’s Zoning and Land Development Standard Ordinance.
The amendment updates multiple sections of the ordinance — including site design, driveway and street design standards, roundabouts, storm drainage, floodplain provisions, water supply and sanitary sewage disposal — and adds a new complete-streets design guideline. Planning Commission and county planning staff had recommended approval.
County Administrator Mario Formosano presented the ordinance and asked for a third and final reading. After a motion, a second and a brief roll call, the council voted unanimously in favor.
The changes renumber several subsections and explicitly add complete-streets language to Articles 10, 20 and 21 of the county’s land-development standards; the stated purpose is to incorporate multimodal street design into zoning and engineering requirements.
Planning staff told the council that the Planning Commission had unanimously recommended the amendment; no amendments were offered during the council’s third-reading debate.
Council members did not record further conditions or implementation dates during the meeting. The ordinance will be added to the county’s Land Development Standard Ordinance as described in the third‑reading motion.
The adoption follows months of work by planning staff and the Planning Commission to align design standards with multimodal planning principles.
