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Planning commission forwards major zoning rewrite and approves two zoning map changes
Summary
The commission voted to forward a revised U-Haul Overlay District ordinance (removing RP-10 and adding PDD standards) to county council while approving rezoning requests for an 8-acre residential minor subdivision and a Bella Mulch industrial site; the ordinance debate included public legal and environmental concerns.
The Jasper County Planning Commission spent the evening reviewing text and map amendments to the county zoning ordinance, considering several zoning map amendments and a conceptual major-subdivision plan.
Ordinance revisions and U-Haul Overlay District
Staff presented revisions to a proposed U-Haul Overlay District and related ordinance text, a years-long effort tied to the Bridal River plan. Major edits staff described included removal of the previously proposed RP-10 district and the related Article 22 small-lot subdivision provisions; creation of a smaller-scale Village Commercial category for certain stretches of Highway 462; and new planned-development-district (PDD) standards for developments of 10 acres or 10 lots or more.
Under the PDD language staff proposed, developers of larger projects must demonstrate they will not cause adverse impacts to infrastructure or public services; the PDD provisions include a maximum density of one unit per acre, a 50-foot continuous landscape buffer parallel to the highway corridor and a requirement that at least 30% of a…
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