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Council adopts permanent rule allowing off‑site laydown yards for public‑works and utility projects
Summary
The council adopted an amendment (Ordinance No. 649) that moves previously temporary rules allowing off‑site storage yards and job trailers into the regular zoning code, dropping a public‑hearing notice step for residential yards after staff said the heightened notice had not been requested in two years.
The Town Council unanimously approved Ordinance No. 649 to fold temporary rules for off‑site construction laydown yards into the regular temporary‑use rules in the municipal zoning code.
The change rescinds an urgency ordinance that allowed contractors on large public‑works projects (PG&E, PID, and town paving) to use off‑site storage yards in private rights of way, and instead places the same authority into the standard temporary use permit section. Council and…
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