Commissioner urges limiting open‑space credit for retention basins during code rewrite
A commissioner told the Planning Commission on May 27 that retention/detention basins should not count as 100% of required open space and proposed partial credit (example: 50%); staff said code already requires basins to meet a five‑to‑one slope to qualify and that the drafting attorney will be asked to consider language changes.
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During the staff‑report and commissioner‑comment portion of the May 27 meeting, a commissioner raised a recurring concern about allowing developers to count retention (detention) basins at full value toward open‑space requirements.
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