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Commission approves definitions and lighting text amendments, tables landscaping to March meeting
Summary
Forest Lake planners recommended ordinance amendments to update numerous code definitions and to consolidate lighting requirements into a single lighting section; the commission voted to forward the definitions and lighting changes to council and to table landscaping revisions until the second Planning Commission meeting in March.
Forest Lake City planning staff brought a multi‑part zoning text amendment to the commission that included changes to ordinance definitions and a proposal to consolidate repetitive lighting requirements into the city’s lighting ordinance. After line‑by‑line review and clarifying edits the commission voted to recommend the definitions and lighting amendments and to table the landscaping section for further work.
Planning staff explained that the definitions portion addressed a long list of terms—easements, manufactured home parks, condominium/dwellings, home…
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