File #: 23-5657    Version: Name: Ordinance - Public Hearing and First and Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 155 of the Mansfield Code of Ordinance, “Zoning”, to Create a New Section 155.057, “Neighborhood Design Standards” and Related Development Regulations (OA#23-008)
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/6/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/8/2024 Final action: 1/8/2024
Title: Ordinance - Public Hearing and First and Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 155 of the Mansfield Code of Ordinance, “Zoning”, to Create a New Section 155.057, “Neighborhood Design Standards” and Related Development Regulations (OA#23-008)
Sponsors: Jason Alexander
Attachments: 1. Ordinance, 2. Exhibit A (Redlined), 3. Exhibit A (Clean)
Title
Ordinance - Public Hearing and First and Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 155 of the Mansfield Code of Ordinance, “Zoning”, to Create a New Section 155.057, “Neighborhood Design Standards” and Related Development Regulations (OA#23-008)

Justification
The City Council met on December 11, 2023, and tabled action on the requested creation of a new Section 155.057, “Neighborhood Design Standards” to allow the Department of Planning and Development Services to incorporate additional edits based on their direction and guidance.

The Planning and Zoning Commission met on October 16, 2023, and voted 5 to 0 (with two absences) to table their review and consideration of the proposed text amendment until their next meeting on November 6, 2023.

Vote:
Ayes: 5 - Mainer, Axen, Bennett, Moses, and Thompson
Nays:|910|Absent: 2 - Goodwin and Shaw


The Planning and Zoning Commission met on November 6, 2023, and voted 7 to 0 to recommend approval of the proposed text amendment.

Vote:
Ayes: 7 - Mainer, Axen, Bennett, Goodwin, Moses, Shaw, and Thompson
Nays:|910|Absent: |910|
The Department of Planning and Development Services recommends that the City Council approve the text amendment as proposed, edited, and presented.

Description/History
This is a request to amend the provisions of Chapter 155, entitled “Zoning” of the City of Mansfield Code of Ordinances to introduce a parallel set of context based zoning standards --- Neighborhood Design Standards --- in a new Section 155.057. As proposed, the Neighborhood Design Standards would allow for more compact, mixed-use, and traditional forms of urbanism to occur and flourish within the OP, Office Park District; the C-1, Neighborhood Business District; the C-2, Community Business District; and the C-3, Commercial-Manufacturing District by-right.

Recent amendments to State Law (i.e., Senate Bill No. 929) concerning non-conforming uses and structures --- and the implications from those amendments on the fis...

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