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Carroll County to study Freedom corridor zoning after concerns about 2019 rezoning
Summary
Staff described differences among C1, C2 and C3 commercial zones and bulk requirements and presented three options (text amendments, overlay/floating zones, or a small-area plan). The board directed staff to scope a Freedom-area small-area plan and asked a consultant to review countywide zoning.
Speaker 4, the planning staff presenter, opened the discussion by tying the current review to a prior deferral on self-storage and the Freedom Community Comprehensive Plan, saying, “What I'm gonna present to you today is associated with the self storage deferral, but sort of an expansion of that discussion.”
Staff showed maps and summarized the three commercial districts in the county: C1 (low-intensity, neighborhood retail), C2 (medium-intensity, broader retail/professional uses) and C3 (high-intensity, regional uses). Speaker 4 listed differences in permitted and conditional uses, noting that “self-service storage facility is 1 of those uses that is a permitted use in c 2 and not allowed in c 1,” and that hospitals and amusement parks are principal permitted uses in C3.
On bulk standards, staff…
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