TO: Mayor Bien-Willner and Town Council Members
FROM: Jill Keimach, Town Manager
Dawn-Marie Buckland, Deputy Town Manager
Jeremy Knapp, Community Development Director
George Burton, Planner
DATE: June 13, 2019
DEPARTMENT: Community Development
Staff Contact George Burton, Planner, 480-348-3525
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Chapter 6 Town Code Amendment - Administrative Land Modification (MI-19-01)
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Proposed amendments to Chapter 6 of the Town Code to establish and provide clarification on which type of lot splits, lot line adjustments, and easement modifications may be processed administratively by staff and which land modifications require Town Council approval.
BACKGROUND:
History and Scope of Amendments
The Town Code is unclear regarding which land modifications can be processed administratively. As a result, staff initiated this code update to establish and provide clarification on which type of lot splits, lot line adjustments, and easement modifications may be processed administratively by staff and which land modifications require Town Council approval.
Most of the language in Ordinance 2019-05 codifies and clarifies the Town's current land modification practices and processes. The code amendments do not change the Town's development standards. Rather, the amendments will allow code compliant easement modifications on residential properties to be processed administratively by staff and will identify that all land modifications on Special Use Permit properties are subject to Town Council review and approval.
The proposed amendments are broken down into four topics: definitions, administrative land modifications on residential properties, land modifications on Special Use Permit (SUP) properties, and updates to the Town's Master Fee Schedule. The scope of each topic is summarized below.
Definitions
Seven new definitions will be added to the code and one definition will be modified. The existing p...
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