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Consultant outlines overhaul of Woodfin's development code; council told LDO could take about a year
Summary
CodeRight Studios consultant Chad Meadows presented a code diagnosis and a staged process to create a unified Land Development Ordinance. Meadows outlined seven key reform themes — consolidation, clearer districts, conditional zoning reforms, procedural predictability, design standards, incentives for affordability, and resilience — and described community testing and an online hub at blueprintwoodfin.com.
A consultant working with the town described a multi‑stage process to replace scattered chapters of Woodfin's code with a single Land Development Ordinance and encouraged a year of careful testing and community vetting.
Chad Meadows of CodeRight Studios told the council the code diagnosis serves as the "blueprint" for the new LDO and that the firm had identified roughly 70 recommendations organized into seven key themes: make the LDO easy to use and…
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