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Bel Air planners back mixed-use code changes, narrow shared-parking rule
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended town code changes that formalize a 50% commercial floor-area test for mixed-use projects and adjust performance standards; commissioners amended a shared-parking requirement so it would be applied at the planning commission’s discretion.
The Bel Air Planning Commission on Wednesday recommended that the Town Board consider amendments to the town code that would formalize a 50% commercial threshold for mixed‑use developments and revise related performance standards and guidelines.
The recommendation came after a staff presentation and extensive commissioner discussion about Hartford Mall and other large mixed‑use proposals. Staff said the code change would require that more than half of the underlying comprehensive‑plan land‑use designation for a mixed‑use project be commercial in order for the development to qualify as mixed use.
Kevin (planning staff) told the commission the 50% test is intended to prevent projects in areas designated commercial under the comprehensive plan from becoming all residential. He also described three clarifications to the…
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