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Woodland Park staff previews consolidated development code, parks, parking and extension changes
Summary
Staff presented a draft Unified Development Code to Woodland Park City Council that consolidates zoning chapters into a single UDC, alters parking standards and public-notice timing, clarifies PUD and extension procedures, and preserves voter-approved short-term rental rules.
Staff presented a draft Unified Development Code to the Woodland Park City Council on a proposed wholesale reorganization of the city's zoning code, consolidating five titles into a single UDC and moving many scattered procedures and definitions into centralized chapters. Speaker 1 summarized the reorganization as aiming to make the code easier to administer by centralizing general provisions, nonconforming-use rules, enforcement language and application procedures.
The draft reorganizes chapter content: Chapter 2 would house zone district purpose statements and dimensional tables; Chapter 3 would contain development standards such as parking, lighting and landscaping; Chapter 4 would consolidate use standards and the use table; Chapter 5 would bring subdivision rules together and clarify parkland-dedication language; and Chapter 6 would collect application procedures and decision-authority tables. "We unwound all that, pulled everything that's already in the code, added this chapter, and then built upon that and created a structure that is much more succinct," Speaker 1 said.
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