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Committee flags form-based codes as a potential outcome of the master plan, but takes no immediate action
Summary
Planners suggested the master plan could launch consideration of a zoning rewrite using form-based codes; the committee agreed to consider the approach but did not recommend an immediate switch.
Planning staff raised the question of whether the master plan should help Boardman begin consideration of a zoning rewrite using form-based codes. The Moderator emphasized the committee was not recommending an immediate change on the call, but that the master plan process could explore whether form-based codes would be an appropriate long-term outcome.
"We are not recommending Boardman goes to a form based code right now on this call, but Carla wants this process to consider it," the Moderator said. Consultant Gary Reddick described form-based codes as rules that regulate the city by building form and streetscape rather than only by land-use categories.
Committee members expressed interest in learning more and hearing visual examples during workshops; no policy decisions or drafts of code language were approved at the meeting.
