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Planning Commission moves to illustrate and schedule public hearing on front‑yard and landscape‑feature ordinance changes
Summary
Commissioners asked staff and the city attorney to add illustrative figures and set a public hearing on proposed ordinance changes that would define landscape features and constrain permanently installed front‑yard fixtures; the commission also discussed removing permanently installed barbecues from the allowed front‑yard list.
The Huntington Woods Planning Commission reviewed two related proposed ordinance changes intended to clarify how corner lots and front yards are defined and to create a definition for "permanent residential landscape features." Staff noted the city attorney prepared the draft language to implement recent Zoning Board of Appeals interpretations.
Key elements of the draft definition for permanent residential landscape features include a list of examples (lamp posts, permanently installed artworks, fire pits, permanently installed barbecues) and a limitation that…
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