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Peachtree City planning commissioners map UDO rewrite, set November presentation to Council
Summary
At a Sept. 9 Planning Commission workshop, commissioners reviewed a compiled list of UDO questions, agreed to emphasize performance standards over prescriptive specs, discussed committee membership and consultant budgeting, and directed staff to prepare a late-November presentation to City Council.
Peachtree City’s Planning Commission used its Sept. 9 workshop to refine questions and process steps for a long-planned rewrite of the city’s Unified Development Ordinance, instruct staff to prepare a presentation for City Council in November, and discuss committee membership, funding and consultant needs.
Commissioners heard that the rewrite is intended as a reorganization and clarification of existing ordinances rather than a wholesale recreation. A staff member said the compiled document before the commission collects questions raised by commissioners and Council and will help frame the November presentation. “Allow for creativity while promoting cohesiveness,” a staff member said, summarizing the approach the commission agreed to recommend.
Several commissioners told staff that City Council members they had spoken with are concerned about overly prescriptive design rules that could make new buildings look identical. Commissioners responded that the UDO draft will emphasize performance standards and…
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