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Washington County committee strips zoning section from proposed planning ordinance, sends standards package to full court
Summary
After hours of debate, the County Services Committee removed the proposed zoning section (Section 5) from a sweeping planning-and-land-use ordinance and approved forwarding the remaining standards package and appeal-procedure amendments to the full Quorum Court for consideration.
The Washington County County Services Committee voted to remove the zoning section of a proposed consolidated planning and zoning ordinance and forwarded the remainder — a standards package covering technical building and infrastructure rules — to the full Quorum Court.
The action follows months of public concern about an early draft map and an extended committee debate in which Judge Chris Deakins and county staff defended a consolidated update intended to replace dozens of scattered ordinances.
Judge Deakins, who led the staff effort on the draft ordinance, told the committee the first map release “got misrepresented very early on” and said staff regrets that release. “I regret that map that was ever released,” he said, describing the map as an early demonstration of how criteria would look along highways rather than a final proposal.
Why it matters: committee members said removing Section 5 (the zoning rules and map) preserves the…
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