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Council holds hearing on downtown parking-code amendments, sends draft back to staff
Summary
The Independence City Council held a Type IV public hearing on LA 2024-05, a package of parking and landscaping code changes intended to increase downtown development flexibility. After staff detail and council questions — especially about counting on-street spaces — the council closed the hearing and asked staff to revise the draft.
The Independence City Council on Nov. 29 heard detailed staff recommendations to change downtown parking and landscaping rules aimed at making compact development more feasible.
City planner Fred Evander told the council the amendments flow from the downtown parking plan and would ease a mix of requirements that currently constrain development: a 50% minimum mixed-use coverage, a 15% landscaping requirement and a requirement for one parking space per residential unit, among other standards. “Parking should be understood and managed as one part of the transportation system down there,” Evander…
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