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Planner presents 40 proposed zoning text amendments to ease business rules, clarify setbacks and cut pool setback
Summary
Prescott Valley planner Brittany Cleveland presented Zoning Ordinance Amendment 26-001 proposing 40 text changes — about half substantive — including a conditional-use path for outdoor business activities, parking flexibility with engineering justification, revised setback measurement rules, an 8-foot privacy-screen option, and a proposal to reduce pool setbacks to 5 feet.
Brittany Cleveland, planner one with Development Services, told the Prescott Valley Town Council at a special study session that staff is proposing Zoning Ordinance Amendment 26-001, a package of 40 text amendments to Chapter 13 intended to make the code clearer and more business-friendly. "This has been a long and iterative process," Cleveland said, summarizing a year of staff work and community outreach.
The amendments fall into two general categories: business-friendly enhancements and clarifying/consistency changes aimed at process efficiency. Cleveland said roughly half of the 40 edits are substantive; the rest are non-substantive clarifications. Key proposals include a conditional-use permit option to allow outdoor activities that the revised code currently prohibits in some zones (examples included daycare outdoor play areas and some…
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