Agenda Item Wording:
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Ordinance Adoption - First reading and public hearing for Ordinance No. 2025-01 for Zoning Text Amendment No. 2024-02, a request by the City of Visalia to amend Visalia Municipal Code Title 17 (Zoning) based on multiple factors including, but not limited to: streamlining of land use review and changes in business and/or development trends and activity, citywide.
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Deadline for Action: 1/21/2025
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Brandon Smith, Principal Planner, (559) 713-4636, brandon.smith@visalia.city
Devon Jones, Economic Development Manager, (559) 713-4190, devon.jones@visalia.city
Paul Bernal, Planning and Community Preservation Director, (559) 713-4025, paul.bernal@visalia.city
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing and introduce the first reading of Ordinance No. 2025-01 for Zoning Text Amendment No. 2024-02 to amend the following Municipal Code Chapters:
- Title 17 (Zoning): Chapters 17.04 Definitions, 17.24 Business Research Park Zone, 17.25 Uses in the Commercial, Mixed Use, Office, and Industrial Zones, and 17.32 Special Provisions.
This recommendation is based on the findings contained therein and summarized as follows:
* The Zoning Text Amendment is consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of the City's General Plan.
* The Zoning Text Amendment makes various updates based on streamlining of land use review and changes in business and/or development trends or activity.
Summary:
It has been staff's practice every few years to process City-initiated text amendments for reasons that generally include clean-up and adjustment. Earlier in 2024, the City analyzed and processed the first phase of a City-initiated zone text amendment, the first since the comprehensive Zoning Ordinance Amendment in 2017, when the City Council adopted the Zoning Ordinance Update in follow-up to the General Plan Update. A Zone Text Amend...
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