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Planning commission backs new Core Commercial zone, limits drive-throughs and recommends lower village-center heights
Summary
Los Ranchos planning commissioners voted to recommend TA-25-02 (text amendments) and ZMA-25-01 (map amendment) to create a Core Commercial zone, limit most drive-throughs on the Fourth Street corridor to service uses, prohibit external storage within 18 feet of Fourth Street, keep light manufacturing permissive, and recommend the Board consider reducing VC height to 26 feet.
The Planning & Zoning Commission on Aug. 12 voted to forward a package of zoning changes to the Board of Trustees that would create a new Core Commercial (CC) zone, update the Village Center (VC) regulations and change the official zoning map.
Staff planner Mr. Williams described TA-25-02 as the product of several months of community working groups. The changes would remove the VC project-area concept, create the CC zone, require an economic-development plan as part of site development review in some cases, and lower the permissible building height in the CC zone (as proposed) from three stories/48 feet to two stories/26 feet.
Late-submitted comments from resident Tom Donlon were read into the record; Donlon urged a two-story (26-foot) limit, opposed removing restrictions on drive-ups and drive-thrus, and said park parcels should be returned to R-3 rather than be included in the VC/CC package.
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