UNIFIED CODE DEVELOPMENT

What’s this about?

The Unified Development Code will be a tool to implement the comprehensive plan’s land use, housing, and transportation policies. It will incorporate all of the City’s development regulations into a single title, structuring it to ease understanding of the rules, make them consistent, and apply a consistent set of procedures for the consideration of subdivisions and other land use approvals.

The City’s existing development regulations are contained in several separate chapters – or “titles” – in the municipal code. Each has evolved independently of the others, resulting in some inconsistencies, missing cross-references, and duplication. Integrating all of the regulations into a single title will allow the City to review the various code shortcomings and address them through unifying the code’s provisions.