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Planning commission recommends annual zoning text update with Columbia Avenue height change, vape-shop limits and 5-year floodplain standard recommendation
Summary
The Franklin Municipal Planning Commission on Oct. 23 voted unanimously to recommend approval to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of Ordinance 2025-25, the annual zoning text update, forwarding the ordinance with four amendments addressing Columbia Avenue building heights, a vape-shop definition and location limits, and a recommendation on floodplain timeframes.
The Franklin Municipal Planning Commission on Oct. 23 voted unanimously to recommend approval of Ordinance 2025-25, the city's annual zoning ordinance text update, to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, forwarding the ordinance with four commission amendments.
Staff presented the ordinance as an annual update covering signage, permitted uses, streetlight standards, performance agreements, floodplain provisions, State law changes and map amendments that include rezoning 171 Hill Haven Lane and 370 Franklin Road to the Civic Institutional district and adding 171 Hill Haven Lane to the Historic Preservation Overlay (HPO). The ordinance also contained language that BOMA had amended at first reading; the commission considered those changes and additional potential amendments.
The commission approved four amendments then voted to forward the…
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