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Bay City planning panel reviews full zoning draft and removes upper-floor deck ban
Summary
At a special April 29 work session, the Bay City Planning Commission continued a line-by-line review of a new zoning ordinance and map; the commission removed a highlighted prohibition on upper-floor decks for single-family units and agreed to clarify setback and site-plan language before the public hearing.
The Bay City Planning Commission met in a special work session April 29 to conduct a final policy review of a complete draft zoning ordinance and the draft zoning map, and to direct staff on remaining edits before a scheduled public hearing.
Consultant Joe Tangary of Gifford Webster told the commission the draft incorporates comments from the project92s yearlong process and that the session was the last opportunity for substantive policy changes before the hearing phase. Tangary summarized map changes, including consolidation of multiple residential districts and a new residential mixed-density overlay that would allow triplexes, quadplexes and townhomes in designated areas.
Commissioners opened the meeting to public comment by motion.…
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