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Kingman commission backs KDRO setback change to encourage Bank Street infill
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Commission voted to approve a city‑initiated zoning text amendment (Z26‑00002) removing the Kingman Design Review Overlay's additional setback requirement for C2 and C3 properties along Bank Street to better align with the 2040 General Plan and an infill incentive district.
The Kingman Planning & Zoning Commission on June 10 approved Z26‑00002, a city‑initiated zoning text amendment to remove section 3‑70.030.C.1, which had imposed additional 20‑foot setbacks in the Kingman Design Review Overlay (KDRO) for properties in C2 and C3 zones along Bank Street. Staff said removing the extra setback will support infill development and the recently adopted infill incentive district program.
Planner Heather Rasmmanson told the commission the KDRO’s additional 20‑foot setback requirement had prevented some small‑lot commercial projects from proceeding because the lots are often too small to build with that constraint. Heather said the amendment removes only the additional setback requirement; other KDRO design standards for architecture, landscaping and signage remain in effect.
Heather explained that C2/C3 standards already require a minimum 10‑foot rear setback where commercial backs residential and a 10‑foot landscape buffer where parking fronts a street, so buffering protections remain. She also clarified that interior commercial‑to‑commercial side yards could be zero feet while rear buffering to residential remains required. No public comment was received on the amendment at the hearing.
Commissioners praised the change as a practical step to make Bank Street more developable and to implement the city’s 2040 General Plan goals; the commission voted to recommend approval to mayor and city council.
