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Council hears housing-audit results and starts discussion of PUDs, lot-of-record and downtown LDO amendments

Mayor and Council of Woodstock City · March 16, 2026
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Summary

Community development staff described a rebuilt housing-unit dataset (from 18,247 to 18,562 total units) and proposed a year of Land Development Ordinance amendments and a Planned Unit Development (PUD) tool to guide infill and mixed-use projects; council members broadly supported master-planned PUDs but asked for implementation details and ownership/tenure breakdowns.

Melissa Sigman, representing the city's Community Development department, presented a months-long audit and rebuild of Woodstock's internal housing dataset and introduced a broader set of LDO updates and the PUD concept intended to implement adopted plans.

Sigman said staff compared multiple sources (the city's existing housing data, stormwater-billing parcel records, Cherokee County tax-parcel data and the city's GIS parcels) and performed manual visual checks where needed. "We went from a total of around 18,247 total dwelling units, both approved and constructed, to 18,562," Sigman…

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