Centreville council adopts ordinance clarifying site-plan review criteria

The Centreville Town Council voted to adopt Ordinance 12-20-24, an amendment to chapter 170 of the town code that clarifies the procedures and criteria by which site plans are evaluated.

Council member Wirth introduced the ordinance and said the text was generated by the planning commission to codify the criteria it has long used. Gay Adams, town clerk, presented evidence that the ordinance's legal advertisement was published in the Bay Times and Record Observer on Nov. 22, 2024.

A public hearing on the ordinance was opened and the council invited comments from those in favor and opposed; the hearing was then adjourned before the council moved to consider adoption. Wirth moved to approve the ordinance. On a roll-call vote the council recorded affirmative votes during the roll call by Council member Beauchamp, Council member Huffer, Council member Perez Kiehl and Council member Wuer; the presiding officer declared the ordinance adopted.

The ordinance formalizes the planning commission's site-plan standards so applicants will have a written reference for what staff and commissioners will apply during review. Town staff said the change is intended to increase predictability for applicants by putting the evaluation criteria into the zoning code.

Copies of the published notice filed by the town clerk list the Bay Times and Record Observer as the publications that ran the legal advertisement on Nov. 22, 2024. The council did not record any amendments to the ordinance during the meeting.

The council did not specify an effective date during the discussion recorded in the transcript.