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Benton County plans multi‑phase development code overhaul and to publish code on Municode

2937604 · April 9, 2025
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County staff outlined a three‑phase plan to update the Benton County Development Code to reflect recent state legislative changes, remove internal inconsistencies and improve readability; the county plans to publish its full code on the Municode (CivicPlus) platform with an estimated early Q2 rollout.

Benton County community development staff told the planning commission Jan. 2 that the county will pursue a three‑phase update to its development code and adopt Municode as the searchable online platform for the county’s regulations.

Darren Nichols, community development director, said the code update has three parts: (1) catch up on state legislative consistency updates; (2) update provisions that will follow policy changes from the comprehensive-plan work; and (3) reformat and improve legibility of the code. "I think it's a 3 phase kind of effort," Nichols said.

Shannon Bush, interim deputy director in…

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