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Fayetteville adopts ordinance updates to meet 2021 state historic‑district rules; council sends design standards to policy committee
Summary
Council voted to adopt the ordinance amendments that staff said are required by a 2021 state law change and referred the companion updated downtown historic design standards to the policy committee for line‑by‑line review and peer comparisons.
Fayetteville City Council on Feb. 3 voted to adopt ordinance amendments intended to bring the city’s local historic‑district regulations into compliance with state law changes enacted in 2021, and referred the proposed design‑standards document to the council’s policy committee for further review and recommendation.
The ordinance portion was moved by Councilman Benavente and seconded by Councilor Hondros; council approved the ordinance amendments by consensus. Council also requested staff produce clear, line‑by‑line comparisons between the existing standards and the proposed document, and sought peer‑city comparisons for reference.
City staff told the council the proposed standards are a new, reorganized document meant to be more user‑friendly than prior guidelines. Assistant City Manager Strickland and preservation staff said they engaged an outside…
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