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Minot planning commission recommends Land Development Ordinance text amendments on gateway overlay, lighting, fencing and ETJ animal rules
Summary
The commission recommended City Council approve several LDO text amendments, establishing a gateway corridor overlay tool, moving outdoor lighting rules to municipal code, adjusting industrial setback language for hazardous storage, permitting certain fencing materials for outdoor storage, and modifying landscaping and ETJ animal rules.
The City of Minot Planning Commission on Feb. 4 recommended that the City Council approve a set of Land Development Ordinance (LDO) text amendments intended to streamline landscaping and zoning standards and create a tool to advance corridor beautification.
Key recommendations forwarded to the council included: establishing a gateway corridor overlay district to allow design standards to be applied across underlying zoning districts; removing an unexplained 1,000‑foot setback for hazardous material storage and replacing it with a case‑by‑case assessment that brings fire and engineering staff into conditional‑use reviews; moving outdoor lighting regulation from the LDO into the municipal code for enforcement by the police and legal…
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