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Planning commission asks staff to clarify forestry-zone setback measurements for private roads
Summary
Staff flagged language in the draft forestry-zones ordinance (chapter 19.24) that measures setbacks 'from a public right of way'; commissioners debated measuring from platted right-of-way versus physical road edge or center line and asked staff to draft clearer, implementable language for the Jan. 8 meeting.
A planning staff member (Speaker 2) told the commission that the draft forestry-zones ordinance (chapter 19.24) mistakenly measures required setbacks "from a public right of way," a phrasing that would not work in areas served by private roads such as Emigration Oaks. "I noticed that for the setback ... we need to remove the words 'from a public right of way,'" the staff member said, asking the commission to approve language that would apply across varied road conditions.
The commission debated how to define where a setback should be measured: the recorded (platted) right-of-way, the physical road edge, the road center line,…
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