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Commission debates allowing landscape rock or gravel as parking surface, but declines immediate change
Summary
After public comment and staff analysis, commissioners expressed concern about erosion, drainage, maintenance and enforcement challenges and indicated no appetite to amend the hard-surface definition to allow landscape rock or loose gravel for parking.
City staff brought forward a resident request to allow landscape rock or gravel to qualify as a "hard surface" so it could be used for parking and storage. Under current code "hard surface" includes impervious or designed-pervious pavements such as asphalt, concrete or pavers; permitting rock or gravel would require an amendment to the municipal code.
Resident Matt Petty described installing landscape rock adjacent to his driveway to park a trailer; he said he did not want to incur the cost of a…
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