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Planning Commission reviews zoning streamlining package, asks staff to refine notice and appeal safeguards
Summary
Staff introduced a city‑initiated zoning amendment package to expand administrative approvals, change sign and landscape exception rules, adjust condominium conversion caps, and clarify lighting and parklet rules; commissioners requested clearer notice, call‑up safeguards and asked staff to return Jan. 21 with revisions.
The commission opened and discussed a city‑initiated zoning amendment package intended to streamline review processes and clean up code language. Planning staff presented the draft amendments, which include expanding administrative development permit eligibility, allowing the City Planner to decide more items now handled by the Zoning Administrator (with a 300‑foot notice and a 10‑day administrative‑hearing request window), narrowing when a master sign program is required, permitting minor‑exception landscape approvals for small mixed‑use properties, and…
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