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Council debates shift of traffic‑control costs to developers as LDSO revisions aim to lower housing costs
Summary
Staff proposed shifting the city’s annual sign/striping costs to developers and tightening street/paving and sidewalk standards as part of Land Development & Subdivision Ordinance updates aimed at reducing housing development costs. Council asked staff to return with cost breakdowns and safeguards.
City planning and operations staff on March 17 advanced a package of proposed Land Development & Subdivision Ordinance (LDSO) changes designed to lower development costs and help housing affordability — and floated a separate proposal to shift the city’s recurring cost for traffic control devices, signs and striping to developers.
Senior planner Austin Reed described recommended LDSO edits to simplify standards and reduce typical new‑street paving widths (for example, standardizing new local street paving widths and clarifying where sidewalks…
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