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Planning commission reviews wide-ranging land-development-code updates including ADU, parking-setback and conditional-rezoning changes
Summary
Commissioners and staff reviewed clarifying amendments to the land development code—changes include ADU yard and floor-area rules, a new parking-setback line in the NDW form-based code, site-plan-review clarifications, a possible canopy/tree-standard, and a requirement that conditional-rezoning agreements accompany planning-commission applications.
Planning commission members spent the bulk of the meeting reviewing proposed clarifications and reorganizations to the city's land development code, touching on accessory dwelling-unit rules, form-based code definitions, site-plan-review standards and conditional rezoning procedures.
Staff walked the commission through multiple edits and clarifications. On accessory dwelling units, staff proposed that detached ADU components and any attached features (exterior stairs, landings) must comply with existing accessory-structure rules and that "interior stairs serving the ADU shall be counted towards the ADU floor" (staff clarification). The commission…
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