Agenda Date: 09/02/2025
Subject:
Title
Ordinance 17-2025: An ordinance on second reading amending Title 10, the Unified Land Use Code, Chapter 9, Administration, Section 4.1, Rezoning/Zoning Map Amendment
Body
From:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
Prepared by:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
Presentations:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
PURPOSE:
To consider expanding notification requirements for comprehensive rezoning and text amendments that add, remove or change the types of residential uses that are allowed in SLR, MLR, LLR, and ACR zoning districts.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
On January 7, 2025, City Council considered making changes to some of the zoning districts in the City of Littleton to allow for different types of residential units such as duplexes to be allowed uses. After consideration, City Council decided to postpone the ordinance indefinitely, which essentially had the effect of killing the ordinance.
Since that time there has been interest to make improvements to the city's notification requirements to ensure that more people are aware of possible changes to their zoning. Some of that interest has led to a citizen initiative that would, in part, have the effect of changing some of the city's notification requirements for comprehensive rezoning or land use map amendments.
In an effort to address some of those concerns regarding notification, City Council directed that an ordinance be prepared to increase the notification required for any city-initiated comprehensive rezoning changes including additions and removals to the types of residential uses allowed in the SLR, MLR, LLR, and ACR zoning districts.
The proposed ordinance would require that the city have delivered notification by mail through the United States Postal Service (USPS) to affected property owners if the City decided to initiate any comprehensive rezoning or land use map amendments that added, removed, or changed residential uses within the S...
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