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Greenville adopts Unified Development Ordinance after multi-year review; council signals follow-up on parks, trees and bike access
Summary
After two years of review, Greenville City Council adopted a new Unified Development Ordinance and updated zoning map, approving measures on ADUs, tiny-home standards, tree protections and conditional zoning while directing staff to continue work on parkland dedication, fee-in-lieu and multimodal (bike/walk) details.
Greenville City Council voted 6–0 on Nov. 13 to adopt the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and the updated official zoning map after a two-year process of task force work, public open houses and consultant review. Planning Director Les Everett and consultant Sarah Sinatra (Inspire Placemaking Collective) presented a comprehensive rewrite consolidating multiple chapters of the city code and adding graphics, dimensional tables and clearer procedures.
Major elements explained in the presentation include clarified definitions, conditional zoning procedures, allowances for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on qualifying lots (presentation cited an ADU limit of approximately one-third of the primary dwelling—presentation slide: 35%), tiny-home standards for existing…
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