Commission approves zoning and housing-code cleanups including variance clarification and dwelling definition changes

Jul 15, 2026

County planners proposed multiple cleanups: clarify that variances are deviations from numerical standards and granted by the Board of Supervisors, remove a one-kitchen limit from the dwelling-unit definition, update forestry-support use tables, and align in-lieu fee language with a 2018 Board resolution; commissioners recommended approval.

The full story

Christina Hassman, principal planner, presented several non-controversial code cleanups the county staff described as clarifications and consistency edits.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in