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Johnston council initiates zoning text amendments and places temporary moratorium on 10-foot administrative height exceptions

2847998 · April 2, 2025
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Summary

Council approved a package to start rewriting definitions and rules tied to an administrative 10-foot height exception and adopted a six-month moratorium on using that exception while staff drafts text amendments.

The Johnston City Council voted March 17 to initiate a series of zoning text amendments and to place a moratorium on the administrative height exception in Chapter 167.035(b) of the zoning code.

City staff said the amendments will review uses listed in the administrative height-exception provision, add definitions in the code's definitions chapter, and consider whether specific height exceptions should be allowed only in certain zoning districts…

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