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Starting in 2007, town Council made flexible changes to the Land Management Ordinance (LMO) to encourage redevelopment that will continue to make our island a viable, vibrant community.
Here are some examples of these changes:
Redevelopment Floating Zone
This amendment created a process for an applicant to go through to redevelop an existing nonconforming site (a legally established site but no longer because of LMO changes) without the need for full compliance with LMO. In addition to grandfathering nonconforming density, it also provides a great deal of fexibility in site design with relief from a number of standards such as bufers, impervious coverage and parking.
Creation of Coligny Commercial Walking (CCW) Zoning district
This amendment provided fexibility for 30 non-residential parcels in the former Central Forest Beach zoning district. This fexibility is generally in the site design area and allows a parcel to be developed with reduced setbacks and bufers and no required parking on site. Additionally parcels in the CCW zoning district are allowed fexibility in width of bufer and materials allowed in bufer (pervious pavement, tables, chairs and fountains).
Creation of Dunnagan’s Commercial Walking (DCW) Zoning District
This amendment provided fexibility for 43 parcels in the former Commercial Center zoning district. This fexibility is generally in the site design area and allows a parcel to be developed with reduced setbacks and bufers and no required parking on site.
Deleted the Conficting Provisions Section of the LMO
This amendment allows an applicant to choose any use permitted in the applicable zoning district regardless of whether one use would require a variance from the design and performance section and another use would not require a variance.
Disaster Recovery
The changes to this chapter now allow nonconformities to be allowed to be built back with the same nonconformities. Allowed single-family homeowners to submit pre-disaster photos in place of elevation drawings and site plans.
Permitted Activity in Street and Adjacent Use Buffers
Allow easements to be included within, rather than in addition to, the bufer as long as the easement will still provide the functions of a bufer.
Tree Bank
Opened this up for any development (previously was only allowed for redevelopment sites) provided they prove they cannot meet the tree replacement requirements on their site.
Allowed the airport to use this provision without showing that they can meet tree replacement requirements.
Nonconforming Site Features and Structures
Provides a great deal of fexibility for those applicants looking to incrementally redevelop their site; they can keep existing nonconformities without having to go through the redevelopment foating zone process.
