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Planning board opens review of parking minimums and plans special meeting to update land‑use plan
Summary
Board members agreed to research changes to nonresidential parking minimums to encourage small businesses and tentatively set a special meeting (May 1) to begin work on the town land‑use plan; staff warned of pending state bills that could affect local authority.
The Sunset Beach Planning Board on April 17 opened a discussion on whether to reduce or eliminate nonresidential parking minimums in the town’s Unified Development Ordinance and agreed to begin a focused review of the 2017 land‑use plan.
Chair introduced the topic as an attempt to "liberalize our minimum parking requirements to encourage more nonresidential development," and board members discussed options including modest expansions of existing reduction allowances, right‑sizing by use category, shared‑parking agreements,…
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