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City planner outlines comprehensive zoning-code overhaul, council raises questions about corridor zoning and daycares
Summary
City Planner Schoenig presented a 224-page draft zoning code proposing a full rezoning of Elyria (consolidating districts from 17 to 9, reduced residential setbacks in places, updated sign rules and removed overlays); council members pressed for more detail on corridor districts, drive-through grandfathering, tax impacts and daycare rules.
City Planner Schoenig presented a comprehensive rewrite of Elyria’s zoning code during a strategic planning session, calling the proposal “a complete rezoning of the entire city, every single parcel.” The draft — now about 224 pages — would reduce the number of zoning districts from 17 to 9, simplify and modernize terminology, revise setback requirements (in some residential areas reducing 30-foot setbacks to about 20 feet to allow greater density), and update sign, fence and parking rules to align with the city’s 2024…
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