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Bluffton council adopts design-standards amendment increasing accessory footprint and adjusting lot-coverage language
Summary
On Jan. 13 the Bluffton Town Council gave second and final reading to an amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance that increased an accessory-building maximum footprint from 400 to 600 square feet and removed a 20-foot minimum provision; council approved the ordinance by voice vote after no public comment was offered.
The Bluffton Town Council on Jan. 13 held a second and final reading of an ordinance amending the town’s Unified Development Ordinance design standards, including accessory buildings and maximum lot coverage. Staff said the ordinance had been edited since first reading, noting two primary changes: the maximum accessory-building footprint was increased from 400 to 600 square feet and language requiring a minimum 20-foot dimension (bullet point 3) was removed.
The council called three requests for public comment on the ordinance; no members of the public spoke on the item. Councilmembers asked staff clarifying questions about lot-coverage percentages and whether the Old Town Master Plan audit would allow future updates to the numeric tables in the code. Staff confirmed the master-plan audit will be used to inform potential adjustments.
A councilmember moved to adopt the ordinance as shown on the screen; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The council’s public-record motion text and the final ordinance language are available as exhibit A in the staff report (attachment 1). The ordinance was adopted at the meeting and will be applied according to the town’s code-enforcement and permitting process.
Councilmembers emphasized a follow-up review of lot-coverage percentages for certain small-lot contexts and directed staff to include those items in the master-plan audit and subsequent code-change recommendations.
