Staff lays out four policy considerations and invites public feedback before Board work session
County staff presented four Board‑directed policy questions — keeping lot coverage, requiring contiguous plantable area, adjusting setbacks, and factoring lot size/zoning into limits — and asked for public feedback through fall engagements and an online tool.
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Staff summarized the Board’s four policy considerations and provided staff‑level recommendations and caveats. On retaining lot‑coverage rules, staff suggested running both systems in parallel temporarily so the county could compare outcomes; on minimum contiguous plantable area staff said legal authority and enforceability concerns make a mandate impractical; on setbacks staff recommended targeted geographic approaches rather than a blanket adjustment; and on lot size staff reiterated the hybrid district approach.
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