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Quorum Court sends consolidated planning-and-zoning ordinance to planning board after amendments
Summary
Justices amended a consolidated planning-and-zoning ordinance, removed a proposed map, reinserted the conditional-use-permit process into section 5, and referred the ordinance to the planning board for a public hearing.
At its March meeting, the Washington County Quorum Court voted to send a consolidated planning-and-zoning ordinance to the county planning board for public hearings after approving a set of amendments intended to create a "clean" draft for public review.
Justice Lyons, the motioner on several amendments, told the court he sought to avoid internal conflicts in the draft by moving the county's existing conditional-use-permit (CUP) procedures into a single section and renumbering several sections to reconcile procedural overlaps. "Basically, simply speaking, it takes the CUP process that is currently codified in our ordinances today and puts it in section 5," Lyons said. He also moved to remove a…
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