Commission reviews draft comprehensive plan comments from DLCD, debates sidewalks, open‑space setbacks and outdoor commerce
Staff reported DLCD comments are arriving and led a discussion on potential policy refinements including evaluating development adjacent to open space (height/setbacks), allowing commercial uses along Highway 101, strengthening sidewalk goals, and permitting certain outdoor commercial activities by ordinance without a comp‑plan amendment.
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Planning Director Jeff Flory updated the commission Jan. 7 on the comprehensive plan update and said the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) has started returning comments. He presented sample commissioner comments and asked whether the commission wanted to strengthen Policy 1.5 to evaluate development adjacent to open space for height, setbacks and landscape controls.
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