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Committee sets public hearing for UDOCC 35 cleanup amendments to unified development ordinance
Summary
Planning staff presented UDOCC 35, a package of 16 text changes — mostly clerical fixes plus three clarifications on building articulation offsets, parking credits for vegetation preservation and private street lot limits — and the committee voted to set a public hearing for Aug. 17, 2026.
Planning staff presented UDOCC 35, a text‑amendment package for chapters 3 through 9 of the unified development ordinance described as a "cleanup" effort. Planner Murphy said the package includes 16 changes: 10 address grammatical and numbering errors or incorrect references; three provide clarifications (specifying minimum building articulation offsets, capping parking reductions for preserved vegetation, and clarifying that commercial/industrial subdivisions can be served by private streets without lot limits); and three remove conflicts with state, county or local regulations.
Murphy also described an amendment related to the Martin Luther King overlay district (MLKO): state statute changes mean four‑unit and smaller multifamily buildings are governed by the residential code and cannot have local design requirements, so the proposed amendment would exempt townhomes and four‑unit or smaller multifamily buildings and single‑family homes from MLKO standards. Murphy recommended approval; planning board had unanimously recommended the changes at its May meeting.
The committee moved and seconded to set a public hearing for UDOCC 35 on Aug. 17, 2026, and approved the motion by voice vote. Staff said the changes will make the UDO easier to use and bring it into alignment with state and local requirements.
