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Lafayette working group outlines land‑use code rewrite, posts expanded outreach plan and schedule
Summary
Consultants and staff presented a code assessment, a two‑phase drafting timeline and a multi‑channel public engagement plan — including an online commenting tool — and pledged to post public drafts and explain how community input is used. Residents pushed for clearer water safeguards, stronger open‑space protections and broader outreach.
Lafayette consultants and city staff on Monday reviewed a draft code assessment for a citywide land‑use code update and described a two‑stage schedule that will move from an internal technical draft to a full public review next year.
Elizabeth Garvin, a city planner and attorney with Clari and Associates, said the consultants plan to produce an internal technical draft first, then a complete public draft for review. ‘‘We will have public versions of the code online for everyone to comment on, and we will make a version available for the working group to comment on,’’ Garvin said.
The consultants framed four central goals for the rewrite: implement the city’s Legacy Lafayette umbrella policies and related plans; make the code more user‑friendly; produce clearer standards so development outcomes are more predictable; and…
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