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Planning Commission backs citywide objective design standards ordinance with technical amendments
Summary
The Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend City Council adopt an ordinance establishing objective design standards (ODS) and streamlining zoning rules citywide, with amendments clarifying roof‑edge treatments and prohibiting unfinished wood on nonstructural balconies for most development types.
The Glendora Planning Commission unanimously recommended that City Council adopt an ordinance establishing objective design standards (ODS) for architecture and site planning across most of the city, with staff‑proposed amendments addressing roof edge detailing and nonstructural balcony materials.
Principal Planner Hans Friedel and consultant Alan Loomis presented the nearly complete code rewrite, which consolidates design guidance into a new chapter (chapter 21.15) and revises general regulations. Friedel said the ODS effort responded to state housing laws requiring objective standards (including SB 35, SB 330, SB 9 and related statutory guidance) and the city's Housing Element commitments; he described goals of clarity, streamlined review and a “cafeteria” menu…
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