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Department of Community Development
Reference: Land Use and Development Code Update
To: Members of City Council
Through: Marv Falconburg, AICP, Acting City Manager
Holly Prather, AICP, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Aja Tibbs, Long Range Planner
Date Prepared: November 6, 2019
PURPOSE
To amend the Land Use and Development Code in order to better implement the Be Brighton Comprehensive Plan adopted in April of 2016.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Recognizable and Well-Planned Community
BACKGROUND
The overall approach of the regulation update is to:
* Clarify regulations that may be confusing or conflicting with other provisions;
* Simplify where development processes and regulations have become unnecessarily cumbersome or have become barriers to more effective plan implementation; and
* Improve where dated or routine regulatory techniques no longer match with the City's official policies and plans.
To assist staff in completing this major update to the code, the City has contracted with Gould Evans and their sub-consultant, Ayers Associates. The code update process began in the fall of 2017, and aspiring for completion by the end of 2019. The code amendment process consisted of three phases:
1. Diagnose: Identify conflicts and omissions with the current regulations, as well as connections needed between the Comprehensive Plan and other master plans of the city.
2. Align: A time to work through the issues identified during the diagnose phase by research and case study of each topic. A code framework will be completed to address where new provisions will be created, which items will remain in their current form, and the standards that will be revised.
3. Launch: New codes and updates to the existing code will be drafted according to the developed framework. Drafts will go before the public, Planning Commission, and City Council for final approval.
DIAGNOSE PHASE:
The Diagnose Phase of the project included...
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