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Council adopts wide-ranging Unified Development Ordinance text amendments
Summary
City planning staff presented planning-commission-recommended changes to the Unified Development Ordinance — expanding allowed recycle-center materials, clarifying infill setbacks, adding OS-district process charts, standards for private cemeteries, deferred-parking provisions, gazebo/pergola rules and condo/subdivision review clarifications — and council approved the amendments unanimously.
Planning staff summarized a package of text amendments to the City of Holland's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and the council voted to adopt the changes on Sept. 4.
Senior planner Steve Peterson told the council the planning commission recommended updates to make the UDO more user-friendly and to close gaps staff encountered while implementing the code. The amendments expand permitted materials for industrial recycling centers; change infill provisions so building setbacks apply across yard types instead of only the front yard; and…
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