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Quorum Court refers comprehensive planning and zoning ordinance back to Planning Board after multiple amendments
Summary
After several substantive edits — including a new occupancy definition for single-family dwellings — the Quorum Court referred a proposed county planning and zoning ordinance back to the Planning Board for a public hearing to allow public review of the revised draft.
Washington County justices referred a proposed comprehensive planning and zoning ordinance back to the Planning Board for a public hearing after making and debating several amendments to the draft ordinance.
Justice Lyons introduced multiple technical amendments during the meeting, including restoring approval-procedures language that staff said had been inadvertently removed and adding an approval process the court described as part of the county’s ordinary review practice. A high-profile change to the ordinance’s definitions modified "single-family" to accommodate…
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