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Sandpoint planning commission reviews draft commercial map, proposes ‘neighborhood’ and ‘community’ commercial districts
Summary
City planning staff presented a draft zoning map that would collapse multiple commercial categories into two primary types—community commercial for larger, highway-facing uses and neighborhood commercial for smaller, walkable businesses—while preserving downtown rules and addressing nonconforming uses and parking.
City planning staff presented a working draft of a rewritten commercial zoning chapter to the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission on April 21, proposing two principal commercial districts intended to concentrate larger, higher-intensity uses at corridor nodes while allowing smaller-scale, neighborhood-oriented businesses in between.
"If we concentrate the higher intensity land uses in two areas and allow the middle piece to reflect smaller scale businesses and smaller scale development, it's gonna probably make for a nicer corridor that feels less like a strip mall," said Bill Dean, deputy director of community planning and development, as he showed a draft map that replaces the current A/B/C commercial categories with a purple "community commercial" district and a light-green "neighborhood commercial" district.
Dean said the community commercial zones would accommodate larger lots and uses that serve the…
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