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Los Ranchos to require hearings for conditional uses and tighten variance standard; trustees restore 'injurious' wording
Summary
Trustees voted Dec. 1 to publish Ordinance 308, which removes administrative conditional‑use approvals (requiring public hearings) and deletes a broadly-worded variance criterion; trustees also amended the text to retain the word 'injurious' (rather than 'material adverse impacts') to clarify protections for neighbors; the ordinance returns Dec. 16 for further consideration.
At the Dec. 1 special meeting, staff presented Ordinance 308 (TA25‑03), a package of procedural changes to the village’s planning code intended to make conditional‑use decisions more public and to tighten variance criteria.
Planner staff said the ordinance would eliminate the administrative conditional‑use pathway (which allows staff to approve conditional uses after a 15‑day adverse‑comment period) and instead route…
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