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Rexburg council keeps one‑acre option, debates sidewalk rules as code rewrite advances
Summary
City staff presented a rewrite of Rexburg's development code and a 11‑year rezoning spreadsheet; council voted to retain the one‑acre RR1 option and directed staff to revise language on 'residential estate' and sidewalk requirements while flagging potential grandfathering and annexation costs.
Rexburg city staff laid out a proposed overhaul of the city's development code during a joint Planning & Zoning and City Council meeting on April 1, stressing changes to residential zone names, minimum lot standards and sidewalk obligations.
Alan (staff) walked the council through an 11‑year rezoning and annexation spreadsheet showing roughly 1,000 acres rezoned and over 513 acres annexed. He said the dataset helps the city "identify what kind of zoning our citizens are asking for," and framed the rewrite as an effort to align code language with recent development patterns.
The central substantive proposals include removing a small "residential business district" (RBD), consolidating R1 and R2 typologies into a renamed "residential estate" category with a…
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