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Commissioners press staff on whether code rewrite will erase prior special‑use conditions
Summary
During the workshop, commissioners warned that the draft's transition table could remove site‑specific special‑use conditions (for example, a required curb cut closure) if a use is made permitted; staff said parity across properties is a design goal but agreed to research and return with examples.
A recurring point of contention at the workshop concerned a transition table in Draft 2 that would convert some previously permitted special uses into permitted uses in the new code.
A committee member warned that the table could allow properties that had been approved under special‑use processes — and held to site‑specific conditions after public hearings — to lose those conditions when the use becomes permitted. “Those conditions are specific to those sites, and…
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