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Planning commission advances edits to Forestry and Recreation zoning; asks staff for clearer setbacks, pet limits and height references
Summary
The commission reviewed a draft rewrite of the Forestry and Recreation (FR) zone (new chapter 19.46), directed staff to add a setbacks table and waiver language, clarified household-pet definitions, and agreed building-height rules should defer to Foothills and Canyons overlay (FCOS) language until a combined standard is adopted.
The Immigration Canyon Planning Commission spent the bulk of its Sept. 24 meeting reviewing an updated Forestry and Recreation zoning chapter intended to consolidate site-development standards into a new 19.46 and to preserve the canyon’s rural character while clarifying rules for setbacks, pets and building height.
Commissioners directed staff to move a setbacks table (modeled on the commercial table, 19.32.050) into the forestry chapter and to add explicit cross-references to FCOS for stream setbacks and other environmental protections. Unidentified Speaker 6 summarized the draft intent as a status-quo-preserving approach: “So that's what this ordinance does, it proposes to maintain the status quo, basically.” That speaker and others said the chart-style setbacks would help nonprofessional readers and would include a sentence allowing the Planning Commission to waive standards in cases of difficult topography.
Why it matters: the rewrite aims to replace duplicate, scattered…
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