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City staff to keep ETJ development standards, steering committee urges stronger tree-preservation and faster UDC tweaks
Summary
A city steering committee recommended retaining Georgetown point-of-sale style development standards in the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) rather than loosening them, and urged staff to prioritize a revised tree-preservation approach and a set of targeted Unified Development Code (UDC) text amendments for early council review.
City planning staff reported steering-committee recommendations on extraterritorial-jurisdiction (ETJ) rules and proposed a group of Unified Development Code (UDC) amendments the city plans to advance on an accelerated schedule.
Sofia (city planning staff) told council that the steering committee evaluated which UDC application types should remain enforceable in the ETJ and concluded that the city should keep its current ETJ standards rather than substantially deregulating. The committee reasoned that preserving regulatory parity gives the city leverage when negotiating with developers who might pursue deannexation or conditional…
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