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Zoning ordinance revision hearing is February 8, 2007 Meeting immediately following hearing may see sweeping recommendations approved to be sent to Mayor and City Council for final approval. Link to complete revision at end of this story. Signage, Big-Box retail, sexually oriented businesses, landscaping, and neighborhood commercial among major updates. By Ed Waggener The Zoning Ordinance for the City of Columbia is set to get major revisions, if the Planning & Zoning Commission recommends, and the City Council approves, several changes proposed in an updated document prepared by Kriss Lowry & Associates, Inc., of Corinth, KY. A P&Z hearing will be held at 6:00pm, Thursday, February 8, 2007, immediately before the P&Z Commission reconvenes to finalize the version it will send to the Columbia City Council. A hearing was held on Tuesday of this week, but the Commission did not adopt changes at that time, in order to give themselves, and the public, more time to study the changes. Member George Kolbenschlag, fully grasping the heavy responsibility of the panel, said, "We're going to have to really know this. If citizens ask about it (zoning rules), we need to know more of the answers than anyone else." City Councillor June Parson, who has studied the provisions of the ordinance intensely, said that her primary concern is that the P&Z and the City Council enact regulations which will be enforced equally, regardless of the size of the firms to which they apply. And Kristen Lowry admonished the Commission that enforcement of present zoning laws is not consistent, citing the non-conforming flashing signs that been erected in just the past few months. Enforcement is the responsibility of the Mayor, City Council, and Columbia Police Department, not P&Z, P&Z Chairman Joe Flowers said at that meeting. Since that meeting, Kriss Lowry & Associates, Inc., has completed the draft copy of the proposed changes and they are now online and are available in hard copy form at the City Clerk's office. Among the major changes are changes to the manufactured housing regulations, to subdivisions, signage, sex-oriented businesses, and "big box" retail establishments, and new provisions for the Western Bypass & KY 61 Small Area Overlay. Highlights of the changes include the following:
When last checked, the City of Columbia Zoning Ordinance Update was at the top of the list of downloads, and included links to "Columbia Zoning Ordinance 2007 (Draft)," plus "Appendix A-Big Box Retail Design Standards," and "Appendix B&C - Plant Lists." Proposed changes are easily spotted. They are in red. Your Columbia Planning & Zoning Commission is composed of Joe Flowers, chair; and members Lloyd French, George Kolbenschlag, Sue Stivers, and Annissa Radford. This story was posted on 2007-02-01 10:33:14
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