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Urbandale staff outline phased municipal code update to correct citations and obsolete language
Summary
City staff presented a phased project to clean up the Urbandale Municipal Code by correcting statutory citations, removing obsolete zoning language and documenting instances where state law preempts local authority; ordinances to codify phase 1 are targeted for the first December meeting.
City staff told the Urbandale City Council on a lunch-and-learn that they are undertaking a phased update of the Urbandale Municipal Code to correct citation errors, remove obsolete language and make future maintenance simpler.
"One of the things you're gonna see as front and center is that the codification editor ... focused on citations," Maria, who has been working with city staff on the code updates, said. She told the council that aging legislative-history entries and statutory references had accumulated over decades and that cleaning those items would reduce future maintenance workload.
Nicole, a city staff member leading the appendix review, said the codifier returned a 75-page research report with 95 items, ranging from clerical…
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