HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Read Before Packet - 10/21/2025 - Memorandum from Sylvia Tatman Burruss and Megan Keith re Planning & Zoning Commission Recommendation: Land Use Code Update
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Memorandum
Date: October 21, 2025
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
From: Sylvia Tatman Burruss, Sr. Policy & Project Manager, City Manager’s Office,
statman-burruss@fcgov.com
Megan Keith, Senior Planner, Community Development & Neighborhood
Services, mkeith@fcgov.com
Subject: Planning & Zoning Commission Recommendation: Land Use Code Updates
The purpose of this memo is to provide details on the Planning & Zoning Commission
recommendation from the hearing on October 16, 2025.
Commercial Corridors and Centers Land Use Code Updates
The Commission voted 6-0 to recommend that City Council adopt the Commercial Corridors
and Centers updates to the Land Use Code, Harmony Corridor Plan amendments, and
Harmony Corridor Standards and Guidelines amendments. The Commission also recommends
that City Council ensure the language in 6.3.10(A) is not more restrictive than the current Land
Use Code.
1. The purpose of this item is to consider updates to the City’s Land Use Code related to
commercial corridors and centers.
2. These Land Use Code updates implement policy direction in City Plan, the Housing
Strategic Plan, and Our Climate Future.
3. Staff seek a recommendation from the Planning & Zoning Commission that City Council
approve these updates to the Land Use Code.
Comments from community members covered the following:
1. General support for proposed Land Use Code changes.
2. Kudos to staff on engagement efforts.
3. Desire for more flexibility in the Employment zone district to permit outdoor storage.
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4. Request to raise maximum height limit in Community Commercial zone district to 5-
stories from 4-stories.
Commission discussion included:
1. Questions about minimum density and intensity in Harmony Corridor.
2. Curiosity about capacity for South College to provide additional commercial services in
light of proposed Land Use Code updates.
3. Concern about how proposed Minor Amendment applicability statement feels more
restrictive than existing Code and how this new language could affect old buildings.
Attachments
1. Transportation Board Recommendation
CC: Clay Frickey, Sr. Manager, Planning
Noah Beals, Development Review Manager
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Transportation Board
Edgar Peyronnin, Chair
Alexa Nickoloff, Vice Chair
DATE: September 30, 2025
TO: Mayor Arndt and City Councilmembers
FROM: Edgar Peyronnin, Transportation Board Chair, on behalf of the Transportation Board
CC: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
RE: Endorsement of the updated Land Use Code
Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
The Transportation Board voted unanimously in support of the Land Use Code: Commercial Corridors and Centers
Update as presented by Megan Keith and Clay Frickey at our meeting in September. The update advances the
City’s 15-Minute City goals, aligns with current city policies and community needs, and adds clarity to the City's
Development Review Process. The plan supports Transportation Board goals by enabling more housing and
mixed-use buildings, especially along roads with frequent bus service, and by creating clearer building and site
design standards that promote transit use, walking, and rolling along roads with frequent bus service.
The Board requested that the update more clearly reference safety from the perspective of motorized vehicle
movement as a goal. While safety is inferred within a fifteen-minute city priority, it is from the perspective of
active modes, which is a small segment of the community’s total traffic volume. Specifically citing Vision Zero in
this strategic document would foster more innovation in safer road network design for powered vehicles and
provide synergy in effort with its counterpart.
The Transportation Board requests that City Council support the Land Use Code: Commercial Corridors and
Centers Update and approve noting our one comment.
Respectfully submitted,
Edgar U. Peyronnin, Transportation Board Chair
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