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Council approves first reading of downtown historic-overlay amendments and related zoning changes
Summary
Council approved first-reading ordinances to update the city's zoning chapters and to add historic/downtown overlay properties. Planning staff recommended approval and the council passed both measures together.
Ordinances 4 and 5 — which propose amendments to the city's zoning map and chapters concerning the Regional Historic Zoning Commission, a common design review board, and downtown overlay districts — were taken up together after council agreed to bundle the items. The regional planning commission and staff recommended approval.
Councilman Streetman moved approval; the clerk recorded a roll-call vote of 10 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain. Both ordinances passed first reading and will return for additional consideration as required.
Council members said the changes are intended to streamline design review in the downtown core and to update historic-overlay processes to support downtown preservation and redevelopment.
