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Council sends design-review efficiency ordinance and phase‑1 objective design standards to the Planning Commission and Coastal Commission
Summary
Council directed staff to submit a draft design-review efficiency ordinance — including a phase‑1 objective design‑standards 'box‑inside‑a‑box' pathway for low‑impact single‑story primary dwellings — to the California Coastal Commission for feedback and to process urgency and non‑urgency ordinance versions, while continuing development of phase‑2 architectural standards.
The council reviewed a comprehensive package of proposed changes to the city’s design-review code, an administrative efficiency ordinance and a two‑phase plan for objective design standards (ODS). Assistant City Attorney Jane Absegg and Deputy Community Development Director Anthony Viera presented the draft changes and the rationale for a two‑phase ODS effort: phase 1 limits certain low‑impact primary dwelling units to a single‑story envelope and…
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