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Committee reschedules contested lot-size ordinance to October and adopts new zoning-amendment process
Summary
The Wilson County Planning & Zoning Committee voted to send the lot-size ordinance (the resolution overturned by Judge Smith) to the Planning Commission in October and approved a formal process requiring zoning amendments to flow from this committee to the Planning Commission and then to the County Commission.
The Wilson County Planning & Zoning Committee voted to forward the same lot-size ordinance that a chancellor earlier overturned for procedural reasons to the Planning Commission in October, and separately adopted a procedural motion establishing the order in which zoning amendments will proceed.
Committee members discussed the ordinance at length. Staff identified the ordinance as the lot-size amendment identified on the agenda as 23-5-7 and said it was the exact ordinance the Planning Commission and planning design committee had recommended but that a chancellor (referred to in the meeting as Judge Smith) later overturned on procedural grounds. Committee members debated whether resubmitting the exact…
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