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Commission debates hillside disturbance rules and tradeoffs between buildability and visual impacts
Summary
Commissioners and planning staff discussed clarifying Chapter 7 hillside provisions after staff flagged conflicts between lot-coverage caps and a separate disturbance allowance; options included a single disturbance envelope (up to 15%), credits for driveways or retaining walls, slope‑tiered limits, and keeping revegetation requirements.
Planning staff told the commission the hillside provisions in Chapter 7 create practical conflicts for applicants because the ordinance separately caps lot coverage and non‑lot‑coverage disturbance (for driveways, pools, cut/fill) and does not allow those calculations to be interchanged.
Using a DR‑190 example, staff demonstrated a lot with roughly 6% lot coverage and about 4.99% disturbance for non‑building areas; applicants currently often must revegetate and provide…
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