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Recode Rowlett committee seeks to consolidate overlapping zoning codes; recommendations targeted for late October/early November
Summary
Staff told the Planning & Zoning Commission and council that Recode Rowlett — a committee reviewing the city’s two parallel zoning ordinances — has met eight times and is recommending consolidation of districts, updated purpose statements and further review of tree-preservation rules before public roll-out.
City staff and the Recode Rowlett committee updated the Planning & Zoning Commission and council Sept. 30 on an effort to reconcile Rowlett’s two zoning frameworks and simplify the city’s land-use rules.
Director of Community Development Derek Cole said the project’s purpose is to eliminate conflicts between the Rowlett Development Code (the city’s traditional zoning ordinance) and the city’s form-based code, to create a unified, functional code and to ensure the rules are easier to apply and enforce. “The overall objective helps us to achieve a unified zoning ordinance that will take into account those things that are currently, you know, built, that are existing, and then those things that are gonna come,” Cole said.
Cole said the initiative…
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