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Planning commission postpones vote on yard ground-cover text amendment to October
Summary
The Battle Creek City Planning Commission voted July 23 to postpone consideration of text amendment R1-25, which would require residential yards to have living or natural ground cover, until the October planning commission meeting.
The Battle Creek City Planning Commission voted July 23 to postpone consideration of text amendment R1-25, which would amend Section 12.62.02 of the zoning ordinance to require yards in residential districts to be improved with natural or living ground cover, until the October planning commission meeting.
Planning staff explained the amendment would remove an existing exclusion that exempts single-family and two-family residential properties from the ordinance’s ground-cover requirement.…
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