The Sun Valley Planning and Zoning Commission wants to make the city's Development Code a user-friendly document. The commission continued an effort to better organize the city's development ordinances Tuesday, July 11.
"Hopefully it will give the city, the public and the developers a more easy-to-read, helpful code," said Diane Kushlan, a contracted planning consultant of Boise-based Planning and Management Services.
The commission, except absent Commissioner Ken Herich, met in a fourth work session to reorganize the city's existing development code into a more usable document. The development code is organized in three titles—zoning, subdivision and engineering—published in three separate booklets. The overhaul of the document consolidates all ordinances that relate to development.
"It takes the existing structure and makes it readable, so that there aren't all of these misunderstandings," said Mark Hofman, Sun Valley community development director.
The effort involves smaller housekeeping items like clarifying design review criteria, to larger changes like identifying future policy changes.
The draft of the consolidated development code designates space for addition of 2005 comprehensive plan action items, if related future ordinances are approved. The organization of the document provides for items such as open space, riparian, and historic preservation zone regulations. The council must approve any such substantive changes before the ordinances are incorporated into the code.
The commission will likely take the document to public hearing and make a recommendation to the City Council later this summer.
