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Atwater Planning Commission recommends council adopt commercial zoning text amendments

Atwater Planning Commission · April 16, 2026
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Summary

The Atwater Planning Commission voted 3-0 to recommend that city council adopt text amendment 266-5-0100 and related ordinance changes to chapters 17.34–17.38 of the Atwater Municipal Code, standardizing setbacks, building-height language and giving staff authority to interpret similar uses.

The Atwater Planning Commission on April 15 voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council adopt a zoning text amendment that standardizes development standards across the city’s commercial zones and authorizes city staff to interpret ‘‘similar uses.’’

Jonny Lan, community development director for the city of Atwater, told the commission the proposed amendments consolidate and clarify inconsistent language in multiple commercial chapters of the Atwater Municipal Code, including Office Commercial (17.34), Neighborhood Commercial (17.35), Central Commercial (17.36), Thoroughfare Commercial (17.37) and General…

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