Commissioners flag Business & Technology district as needing limits or later text amendment
The proposed Business & Technology (BT) district drew scepticism from the planning commission, which said the draft's use table could allow industrial-scale manufacturing in areas near neighborhoods and suggested either removing certain manufacturing uses or deferring detailed use limits to a future text amendment.
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The commission pressed staff and consultants on the proposed Business & Technology (BT) district, which the draft created to accommodate employment-generating uses such as corporate headquarters, light clean manufacturing and research-and-development facilities. Staff said nothing would be proactively mapped to BT and that rezonings would be applicant-driven; commissioners worried the district as written could open the door to manufacturing uses near neighborhoods without sufficient size or use qualifiers.
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