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Cheyenne committee backs text change to assign city zones on annexation
Summary
The Public Services Committee recommended adopting a text amendment to the Unified Development Code that would require case-by-case assignment of city zoning for properties annexed from Laramie County, trading predictability for more context-sensitive zoning decisions.
The Cheyenne Public Services Committee voted to recommend Monday night that the City Council adopt a text amendment to the Unified Development Code to change how the city assigns zoning when property is annexed from Laramie County.
The change would stop the previous practice of automatically applying the county's zoning or a direct county-to-city crosswalk. Instead, planning staff would evaluate each annexed parcel’s existing use, surrounding city zoning and uses, and likely future uses and then assign a city zone on a case-by-case basis.
Planning staff presented the amendment as a…
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