Agenda Date: 04/09/18
Subject:
Title
Resolution 09-2018, An Ordinance to Amend Title 10, Chapter 9, Planned Development Overlay, and Chapter 2, Zone Districts
Body
Presented By:
Jocelyn Mills, Community Development Director
PROPOSED CODE AMENDMENT:
The proposal is to amend Chapter 9, Planned Development Overlay (PDO) and Chapter 2, Zone Districts of Title 10 of the City Code.
PROCESS:
A proposed zoning code amendment is a Legislative function and decision. Planning Commission makes a recommendation to the City Council. City Council is the final decision-making body for code amendments. If Planning Commission recommends approval of this proposed ordinance, the next steps in the process will be two hearings (a first and second reading) before City Council on the proposed ordinance.
Legislative decisions involve policy choices that apply to a broad class of landowners. Information gathered at public hearings, from informal conversations with citizens and others, from memoranda prepared by City staff, and from other sources, may be used in deliberation. Legislative bodies are not required to be impartial, only to grant fairness in the procedure.
BACKGROUND:
There are several items in the PDO chapter of the zoning code are in need of review.
PRIOR ACTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS:
A study session was held with city council on the proposed code amendments on February 27, 2018. A study session on the proposed updates also was held with planning commission on March 13, 2018.
The proposed code amendments (with date of 3/13/18) also were posted on the LittletonPlans website after the study sessions with city council and planning commission. Public comments received as of April 4, 2018 regarding the proposed amendments are attached to this staff communication.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
Potential code updates for the Planned Development Overlay (PDO) section of the city's zoning code include removing the option for a PDO in any of the city's residential zone distric...
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