Agenda Date: 10/10/2017
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Development & Engineering Code Priorities
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Presented By:
Keith Reester, Acting Public Works Director and Jocelyn Mills, Community Development Director
BACKGROUND:
The council has requested a review and update to the city's development codes for the past few years. This was highlighted again at the council's retreat earlier this year. In response to that discussion, Community Development and Public Works, working with the City Attorney's Office, have identified a series of prioritized code updates and projects that would require Planning Commission and City Council consideration over the next several months. The study session is an opportunity to confirm with council that prioritized list and the schedule for completing the work.
This effort is seen by staff to be complimentary to the project council is considering in the pursuit of a community vision, updating the city's comprehensive plan and eventually updating the city zoning and subdivision regulations. The project to be discussed at this study session is intended to address the more immediate problems seen with the code, but recognizing the visioning project will likely require a larger realignment with the codes in the future.
Community Development and Public Works are proposing these more immediate code updates to enhance community and business support and enhance organizational performance. These efforts are targeted at improving the existing development code and regulations, developing transportation design standards, defining stormwater requirements, and establishing Level of Service standards (LOS). In a large segment of these areas the city currently may not have standards, have standards that do not comply with state or federal regulations or counter legal compliance with regulations.
The goal of this effort is multifold. First, city standards will seek to be compliant with state and federal regulations; second, standards will be developed in areas ...
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