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Planning committee reviews draft PUD ordinance; public commenters urge protection of farmland
Summary
Planning staff presented a draft overhaul of the county's planned unit development (PUD) rules including lower acreage thresholds, density formulas, open‑space requirements and mandatory traffic studies; public commenters and several committee members urged preserving agricultural land in A‑1 zones.
Planning staff presented a comprehensive draft amendment to Wilson County's Planned Unit Development (PUD) regulations and the committee discussed revisions that would lower minimum acreage thresholds, change density calculations, and require traffic studies for all PUD proposals.
The draft would reduce the residential minimum for a PUD from 100 acres to 30 acres and the minimum district size for commercial/industrial PUDs from 15 to 10 acres. It would set a base residential density at 1.75 dwelling units per acre (single‑family) for the minimum PUD size and allow incremental density bonuses for additional preserved open space, capped at +0.3 units per acre. The draft also calls for at least 30% of a PUD's acreage to be preserved as non‑disturbed open space (excluding stormwater ponds…
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