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Planning staff proposes wide review of conditional-use entries; commissioners start with residential section
Summary
Planning director told the commission the city's land-use table contains hundreds of conditional uses and proposed a phased review (starting with residential zones) to reduce unnecessary CUPs, clarify mobile-home rules and align zoning with development patterns.
At a Feb. 25 work session before the regular meeting, Planning Director Buettner told Kenai's Planning and Zoning Commission that the city's land-use table currently includes a very large number of conditional uses and recommended a phased review beginning with residential categories.
Buettner said staff counted what he described in the meeting as "549 conditional uses" and argued the number of conditional entries made the table difficult to use. He proposed breaking the review into chunks,…
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