County staff proposes moving development-standard relief from special-use hearings to variance process

Cochise County staff presented docket R2602 at a July 28 work session, proposing to move development standards that currently trigger special-use review into the site-development standards section so requests for relief would be handled through a variance at the Board of Adjustment. Staff said the change is intended to treat height and setback relief as site-development questions rather than land-use questions and to align processes with the state statute that delegates variance authority to the Board of Adjustment.