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Commission reviews proposed revisions to subdivision regulations; asks staff to add wildfire, transportation and HOA clarifications
Summary
City planning staff proposed several updates to subdivision regulations, including mandatory boulevard tree plantings, a transportation-impact study threshold, and updated street cross-sections; commissioners asked staff to add wildfire mitigation language and to address conflicts between HOA covenants and city code.
Planning staff presented the third phase of a multi-part review of the City of Livingston's subdivision regulations, focusing on changes driven by "community experience" including boulevard tree plantings, transportation-impact thresholds, updated street cross-sections and riparian/wetland setback recommendations.
Planning Director Jennifer Severson told members the proposed changes would require at least one boulevard tree per lot frontage in subdivisions (with an overall tree-planting plan approved by the city arborist) and move the technical street-section table into an appendix with a new visual typical cross section derived from public-works design…
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