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Council approves rural zoning package: legacy districts, family-exemption changes, lot-width and setback revisions
Summary
York County Council approved a package of changes to rural zoning rules July 21 that make AGC-1 and RUD-1 legacy districts, add several special-exception uses to rural districts, and revise family-exemption, lot-width, setback, and shipping-container rules.
York County Council on July 21 approved a set of zoning code amendments intended to simplify rural district types and to address recurring land-division and development issues in agricultural and rural neighborhoods.
Planning staff presented the —3 rural zoning project, explaining that AGC-1 and RUD-1 have similar dimensional and use standards and that making them legacy districts prevents future rezonings to those specific district labels without changing existing property rights. "We're taking care of reducing the number of districts we actually have without really affecting anybody's property," presenter Diane Dill said during the staff presentation.
Council also approved edits to the use table so that certain uses (assisted-living, hunting clubs/landscape-supplies/craft rotary uses, and…
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