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Conway planning commission defers broad UDO revisions, schedules workshop
Summary
City planning staff presented extensive changes to the Unified Development Ordinance that would add supplemental standards and special-exception review for uses such as vape/tobacco shops, alternative financial services, gas stations and outdoor-event facilities; commissioners voted to combine amendment items and defer action pending a workshop.
City of Conway planning staff on Feb. 5 presented sweeping proposed changes to the Unified Development Ordinance that would add supplemental standards and special-exception review for several regulated commercial uses and rename portions of the code.
The staff presentation outlined amendments to articles 2, 4, 5 and 14 of the UDO, including coding changes to the use tables (conditional uses recoded to supplemental standards as 's'; accessory uses as 'a'; special exceptions as 'SC') and renaming Article 5 to better reflect supplemental use and development standards. "There were several instances where a use was listed as being permitted, but then listed in article 5 as a conditional use in the same zoning district," Speaker 5 said,…
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