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Murphy updates public‑hearing notice rules for zoning changes to match state requirements
Summary
Council adopted an amended public‑notice ordinance to clean up notice language, preserve the city's courtesy 500‑foot notice, and add state‑required notice language when zoning changes increase housing density; Planning & Zoning recommended approval 6–0 and council approved it unanimously.
City staff presented a repeal and replace of the city’s public‑notice ordinance for zoning actions to consolidate prior piecemeal changes and ensure required language appears on notices when zoning changes could remove an existing permitted use or increase housing density.
Staff said the city will continue the local courtesy notice to 500 feet in addition to the 200‑foot statutory boundary and that the state now mandates specific all‑caps language on notices where a zoning change removes an existing permitted category. Staff also described a change raising the protest threshold for certain zoning changes (state law increases the protest threshold to 60 percent for zoning changes that increase housing units or density).
The mayor opened the public hearing at 6:36 p.m.; no one addressed council on this item. Council moved to approve the ordinance as presented and the motion passed unanimously.
