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Planning commission approves zoning change to align Lakewood code with Senate Bill 5509
Summary
The Lakewood Planning Commission voted to approve Resolution 2025-04 to amend the city code to conform to Senate Bill 5509, allowing commercial child care centers and conversions as permitted uses across most zones while retaining conditional-use review for industrial areas.
The Lakewood Planning Commission voted to approve Resolution 2025-04 to amend the city’s land use code to conform to Senate Bill 5509, staff said. The code change would allow commercial child care centers and conversions of existing buildings for child care as outright permitted uses in most residential and commercial zones and provide conditional-use approval in industrial and light-industrial zones (except near high-hazard facilities).
Staff planning advisor Tiffany said, “Senate Bill 5509 is the reason for this discussion,” and summarized that the state law requires expanded allowances for…
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