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Planning department touts streamlined zoning code; staff proposes faster decision path for special uses
Summary
DPD presented a draft Unified Development Code (Memphis 3.0) that cuts the code’s word count nearly in half and reduces conditional/maybe entries in the use matrix. Staff argued the changes will speed approvals by routing many special-use decisions to the Land Use Control Board with appeal to the elected body.
City planning staff outlined the draft Unified Development Code (UDC) update known as Memphis 3.0 to a council committee on April 14, describing major simplifications to the use matrix and permitting procedures.
Brett Ragdell and colleagues said the draft code reduces ambiguous “maybe” entries — where a use requires discretionary review — so that projects encounter fewer case-by-case approvals that slow development and impose costs on small or nontraditional…
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