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Murrieta council directs staff to map hillside overlay, favors 25% slope threshold
Summary
At an Oct. 21 workshop, Murrieta City staff and council worked through draft changes to the city's hillside standards and directed staff to produce a codified overlay map, use 25% as the primary threshold for review and retain a CAD/average-slope measurement as an appeal alternative to GIS.
Murrieta City Council held a workshop Oct. 21 to review proposed changes to the city's hillside ordinance and gave staff direction to codify a hillside-overlay map, generally favor 25% as the threshold for special review and to use GIS as the primary measurement with an AutoCAD/average-slope formula available if a property owner contests the GIS result.
Staff framed the revision as a four-part exercise: define which slopes trigger the ordinance, decide whether the definition applies citywide or only inside a mapped overlay, reconcile inconsistencies between the code's 20% reference and other 25% references elsewhere in the code, and adopt an objective measurement method with an appeals path. Senior Planner Chris Tracy told council that a 25% threshold is more consistent with other code sections and that adopting a codified map would reduce uncertainty…
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