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Planning staff propose batch zoning-text amendments covering M1 uses, ADA parking, cottage housing and short-term rentals

5545821 · August 5, 2025
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Summary

Winchester planning staff presented TA-25-4, a batch zoning-text amendment proposing targeted changes to M1 permitted uses, cottage housing rules, ADA parking references, short-term rental provisions and landscape-area wording in the zoning ordinance.

City planning staff presented a batch zoning-text amendment labeled TA-25-4 that would bundle several relatively small amendments to the Winchester Zoning Ordinance and related sections for initiation and public hearing.

Staff described several components of the batch amendment. The M1 industrial permitted-uses section would be amended to explicitly prohibit asbestos manufacturing (staff said federal law effectively prohibits such activity and the local code should reflect that). Cottage housing language would be…

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