Planning staff seeks to modernize temporary use permit code; commissioners debate thresholds and exemptions

Staff presented a compact redline draft intended to modernize the city's temporary use permit code, which staff said traces to county language from 1994 and contains outdated zone names and exemptions. "This whole code is 4 pages long, and 90% of what there is to see is on the 1st 1.5," the planner said, urging commissioners to treat the draft as a starting point for outreach and revision. The draft seeks to clarify that temporary-use permits are for short-term land-use changes (for example, on-site mobile units for medical hardship or temporary construction offices) and to remove language that implies festival permitting that the city no longer intends to offer.