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Planning commission backs overhaul of design‑review rules, asks staff to add bird‑safe and lighting analysis
Summary
Commission voted to recommend an ordinance replacing coastal and noncoastal design‑review chapters to the Board of Supervisors, with staff directed to prepare options on exterior light color temperature (2,200K vs 2,700–3,000K) and explore bird‑safe glazing for coastal windows.
San Mateo County planning staff presented a draft ordinance to repeal and replace the county's design‑review chapters for coastal and noncoastal areas and to adopt related zoning text amendments intended to create clearer, objective standards for design review outside the coastal zone and improved standards for coastal review.
Camille Leon, the project planner, said the ordinance would: convert many Bay‑side reviews to a ministerial, checklist‑based review with objective standards where state streamlined processes require objectivity; increase an exemptions threshold on the coast from 150 to 500 square feet with safeguards; require more consistent height…
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