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Skip42's avatar

One indication that zoning is not meeting objective outcomes may be the increasing number of variances. A Variance comes across as a special favour to a developer, business, or home owner. Better to create a framework with strategic intent.

Along the line in Nolan Grey’s “Arbitrary Lines” discussion of the perils in a zoning approach, ....read up on a reasonable alternative to Zoning — Form-based Coding.

There are reasonable alternatives to continuing to use the failing Zoning approach.

https://formbasedcodes.org/definition/

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Skip42's avatar

So… how can we quickly move away from a zoning approach with the need for granting variances, to a more consistent and visible set of objectives?

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Noah Hobbs's avatar

It would take a little while, it would take public meetings to inform the public while also ensuring planning staff is on board.

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Skip42's avatar

…and by “ensuring planning staff is on board” you mean trained, understands the approach, capable of explaining a logic course of action?

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