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Green City Council opens public hearing on updated comprehensive plan; vote expected later
Summary
The council heard a detailed presentation on Ordinance 2025-03, the City of Green’s updated long-range comprehensive plan, including results from more than 1,000 public survey responses; council members requested printed copies and raised concerns about potential land-use tensions. The hearing was closed and a final vote was deferred to a future meeting.
The Green City Council opened a public hearing Tuesday on Ordinance 2025-03, a proposal to adopt the 2024 update to the city’s long-range comprehensive land use plan. Planning and Zoning Director Mr. Weethy summarized the document as a 10-year roadmap that outlines goals, guiding principles and implementation steps but does not itself change zoning or guarantee specific projects.
"This is a plan — a road map — not a regulation that automatically changes existing codes," Mr. Weethy said, noting the city worked with consultant Kleinfelder and received more than 1,000 survey responses and extensive public-workshop input.
Council members praised the breadth of public engagement. Planning committee chair Mr. Davidis said the document provides a useful foundation for future policy work but emphasized that any zoning or land-development-code amendments would require separate processes through the planning commission and council.
Missus Babbitt raised a substantive concern about what she described as a potential internal conflict within the draft: sections that call for preserving the rural residential character of the city’s southwest corner appear, she said, to sit alongside language that designates nearby intersections as business nodes.
"I see those two things in conflict," Missus Babbitt said, asking the administration to clarify how the plan would treat gateway intersections while preserving neighborhood character.
Mr. Weethy replied that the plan is intentionally a guide and that implementation details and any code changes would be addressed through subsequent, separate rulemaking and public hearings.
A member of the public, Tony Ziehler, asked how soon the council would vote and urged broader outreach so more residents could review the full document. Council members agreed to make the draft available in paper format; Mr. Weethy said the presentation copy will be posted online and the full draft will be provided on request while the consultants prepare the final designed format.
The council closed the hearing at the end of the meeting. Because the ordinance is on third reading and the document is still being finalized for distribution, council members indicated a final vote will be scheduled at a subsequent meeting once printed copies and the final formatting are available.
The council did not vote on Ordinance 2025-03 at Tuesday’s meeting; the item remains on the docket for a future session when members will have had time to review the full, printed draft.
