Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Introduction and discussion of draft Small Area Plan Zoning Ordinance Amendments
1:55:42Paul Nabtistaffbetween 2020 and 24 2024 smaller plans were adopted for four of those five activity centers which provide guidance for both public investments and private development which there has been progress on since that time this effort on private development as it relates to the zoning ordinance and most private development that occurs in these areas goes through a land use process because it requires a rezoning or plan developments as we discussed tonight or special use permits in the current process the process has been followed has run into some hiccups as there are often inconsistencies between the smaller plans and our existing regulations also a lot of the benefits that are intended to come out of the smaller
So that is the topic I'm about to talk about right now. And so, as I mentioned, we'll go through some of the, I'll give you an outline of the topics that we're not going to discuss tonight. And this is one of them. And I'll give you kind of a high-level overview of how that will fit. And after that, I'll go through the more detailed discussions that we plan to talk about tonight. So the first one is what you just mentioned, looking at our use table and associated topics. As the planning commission is aware, in certain areas now, in the zoning ordinance, residential and mixed-use development is allowed with a special use permit in commercial districts. The idea is that with these amendments, we would have a new zoning district, which I'll
talk more in detail. It's one of our more detailed topics for tonight. But we would want to steer people toward this new effort. And so our proposal is to remove those opportunities for special use permits in commercial districts for those types of uses, with the exception of the commercial urban district. As Plenty Commission is aware, the commercial urban district is a district that is not proactively mapped. And so applicants have to request a rezoning to go to that. And so the special use permit will still be able to apply to those. And since our proposal is that these changes with this new activity center district will only be able to be applied in activity centers, the CU district would remain as an opportunity for those areas that are outside activity centers,