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Staff lays out zoning text amendments: FEMA floodplain update, fee-schedule tweaks, use-table clarifications
Summary
Town staff presented four draft zoning changes: floodplain regulation updates to meet FEMA requirements, modest fee-schedule updates, clarifications to the land-use table, and standardized residential/commercial ratio language for mixed-use zones; staff said these will go to public hearing.
Town staff presented a package of proposed text amendments for the commission to consider and sent to public hearing. The items covered four main areas: floodplain regulation updates to comply with FEMA timing and requirements; adjustments to the fee schedule to account for new zones and heavier review workloads; revisions to the use table to clarify where wellness facilities and certain nonprofits may locate; and standardizing how residential-to-commercial ratios are calculated in mixed-use zones such as the parking gateway and town center.
Staff said the floodplain update is primarily a date and regulatory alignment required by FEMA, while the fee schedule changes largely reflect new zones added in the last two years and an increase in staff workload for larger SRD projects. On the use table, staff described the wellness-facility category as a crossover between office and group-use settings and suggested handling those by special exception in some commercial zones. The changes will be drafted as a text amendment and scheduled for a public hearing before any adoption.
