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Bangor committee reviews proposal to relax 20‑foot GISD parking buffer for commercial uses
Summary
Planning staff asked the downtown parking committee to weigh a change to the land‑use ordinance that would exempt commercial uses in the GISD zone from a 20‑foot vegetative buffer, while retaining the buffer where parking borders residences, schools or cemeteries.
Planning staff presented a proposed amendment to the city’s land‑use rules that would ease a current 20‑foot vegetative buffer between off‑street parking lots and parcels in the GISD (institutional service) zone for commercial uses, a change staff said would make some downtown development more feasible.
The proposal, described by Ani Clayton of the planning department, would keep the buffer where…
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