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Plan Commission recommends easing conditional‑use thresholds in downtown and urban districts
Summary
The commission recommended amending downtown and urban zoning districts to increase the size threshold for conditional‑use review, making more mid‑sized downtown projects permitted uses while retaining closer review for sites on State Street and King Street and for very large projects.
The Madison Plan Commission on July 7 voted unanimously to recommend a zoning text amendment that raises conditional‑use thresholds in several downtown and urban zoning districts so that more mid‑sized projects would be processed as permitted uses rather than as conditional uses requiring Plan Commission review.
Staff said the change applies to the DC and UMX districts by raising the conditional‑use threshold from projects of four stories or about 20,000 square…
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