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Staff to correct PD use table for manufactured housing and to implement recent state resubmission and childcare statute changes
Summary
Staff will correct the PD district permitted-use table to reflect that manufactured housing has been allowed in practice; they also briefed the board on state changes that raise home daycare capacity from 8 to 10 and eliminate local waiting periods for rezoning resubmissions, and said legal guidance is being sought on how to implement the resubmission rule.
Staff told the Planning Board that one proposed text amendment is a consistency fix: to add manufactured housing to the Planned Development (PD) permitted-use table so it matches prior approvals and practical application. Virginia Norris said the change “does not expand any kind of permissions or change policy. It simply corrects the table to match what is already permitted, in practice.”
During discussion staff underscored the intent is to preserve flexibility for mixed housing types in PD districts while removing confusion for property owners and plan reviewers.
Staff also reviewed two recent state law changes that require local code updates. First, an update to the family childcare definition aligns the UDO with state statute and raises home daycare capacity from 8 to 10 children. Second, staff described a recently ratified House bill that prevents local unified development ordinances from imposing waiting periods that bar refiling denied zoning or rezoning applications. Virginia Norris said staff were consulting the School of Government and county attorneys because the provision’s language appears to require accepting resubmissions “without prejudice” and local practice will need guidance on quasi-judicial cases and res judicata exceptions.
Staff will prepare draft ordinance language correcting the PD table, update the childcare definition for board review, and seek legal guidance on practical procedures for handling immediate resubmissions under the new state rule.
