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Coos Bay Planning Commission recommends building‑code text amendments to City Council
Summary
The planning commission voted to recommend a package of development‑code text amendments — described as a code cleanup to align city code with state and federal law and to ease infill and childcare provisions — and forwarded the recommendation to City Council for final action.
The Coos Bay Planning Commission on Dec. 9 voted to recommend a package of text amendments to the Coos Bay Building Code and related development‑code chapters to the City Council.
City planning staff described the package as a code cleanup intended to resolve inconsistencies, add needed definitions, comply with new state rules (including childcare siting requirements), enable residential infill on small commercial lots and simplify some commercial design standards. ‘‘This public hearing is regarding... a code cleanup of title 17, our development code, with the goal of addressing consistency with state and federal laws and aligning this code with current city plans, policies, and internal processes,’’ staff said.
Staff said the amendments are the product of two years of workshops and review and that the code updates have been available online since October; staff reported no public comments filed on the package prior to the hearing. Commissioners discussed elements including architectural standards, signage, manufactured dwelling siting and off‑street parking rules.
A motion to recommend the amendments passed; the commission’s vote was recorded in the transcript as commissioners responding, ‘‘Aye, aye, aye.’’ Staff said City Council is tentatively scheduled to consider the recommendation during a second public hearing, which was listed in the packet as Jan. 6 (date shown in the record).
