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Plan Commission reviews fixes to residential zoning: lot widths and density standards
Summary
Staff asked the Plan Commission to restore certain twin- and townhome lot-width minimums and to resolve conflicts between dimensional requirements and minimum units-per-acre density rules that produced awkward parcel layouts; commissioners requested visual examples and for staff to test proposals against recent CSMs.
Mount Pleasant staff presented a set of proposed corrections and refinements to residential zoning regulations adopted in June 2025 after staff observed unintended consequences in pre-development reviews.
Staff (Speaker 8) said the consolidation of multiple charts into a single table inadvertently removed narrow-lot allowances that had supported twin and townhome products. To address that, staff proposed restoring minimum lot widths (for example,…
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