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Johnson County outlines Module 1 of zoning overhaul, staff proposes consolidating zoning boards
Summary
County planning staff presented Module 1 of an overhaul to the zoning code — reducing district types, adding an open‑space park district, and posting drafts for public comment — and recommended consolidating two zoning boards into a single nine‑member board with BOCC action expected in January 2026.
Johnson County planning staff on Tuesday gave commissioners an overview of Module 1 of a comprehensive zoning update and introduced a staff recommendation to consolidate the East and West zoning boards into a single, nine‑member consolidated zoning board.
Planning staff said Module 1 covers zoning districts, permitted uses and dimensional standards and is intended to replace decades‑old text with clearer tables and graphics. "The last comprehensive update to the regulations was 1994," county planning staff said, and the draft reduces a large number of plan‑district variants to a smaller set of base districts — cutting the total number of…
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