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Jefferson County adopts broad update to zoning code, adds mediation and new suburban zone
Summary
The Jefferson County Board approved Ordinance 2024‑08, a comprehensive rewrite and codification of Chapter 112 that clarifies definitions, adds mediation and revocation procedures, creates a suburban‑neighborhood zone allowing multifamily housing where community sewer and water exist, and moves recreational‑vehicle parks to conditional use in one commercial zone.
Milton Overton, Jefferson County planning and zoning administrator, told commissioners the county had spent months rewriting Chapter 112 to codify definitions, tighten application processes and better align code with state statute. "We worked several months with the planning zoning commission," Overton said, describing clearer definitions for uses such as event centers, conditional use procedures, variances and a new planned‑unit‑development ordinance.
The ordinance, labeled 2024‑08, makes several substantive…
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