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Commissioners decline a step-down zoning approach and keep urban growth boundary line
Summary
Staff presented three step-down options (100-foot visual buffer, quarter-mile density step-down, and a layered TDR approach); after legal and practical concerns, commissioners voted informally to keep the existing urban growth boundary line and rely on buffer measures and other tools.
Marion County staff presented three options for a step-down approach inside the urban growth boundary — a visual 100-foot buffer, a 100-foot buffer plus a quarter-mile density step-down, and a more restrictive quarter- to half-mile density/TDR approach — and commissioners decided to keep the urban growth boundary line as-is while using other tools such as buffers.
Blair Knighting, staff member, described the three options and…
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