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Approval of an Ordinance to create the Unified Development Code and Map. (Second Reading)
(This item was deferred at the February 10, 2014 Mayor and Council Meeting)
Presented by Bradford D. Townsend, Planning and Zoning Director
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Item Summary:
The Unified Development Code (UDC) and map is a complete rewrite of the existing zoning ordinance and a change to the zoning map. During the development of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan one re-occurring theme was the overly burdensome, confusing and sometimes prohibitive Zoning Ordinance. As a result, one of the action items identified to keep the City moving forward toward its 20-year vision of the Comprehensive Plan was to update the Zoning Ordinance. While the City's Zoning Ordinance has been continually updated, many of the standards within the ordinance are dated and the updates over the years have resulted in an overly complicated and confusing set of regulations.
The UDC map corresponds with the districts in the UDC text. The biggest change to the map is the removal of the FC-A classification and establishing a zoning district for all of these properties that closely matches the property zoning allowed in Fulton County. The E-1, E-2, R-1 and R-2 residential zoning classifications dimensional requirements are staying the same, but are being renamed to RS-87, RS-30, RS-18 and RS-12 so as to represent the minimum lot size within each category. An AG-43 zoning category is being added to represent existing agriculturally used property within Roswell. Several mixed use designations such as RX- Residential Mixed Use, NX- Neighborhood Mixed Use, CX- Commercial Mixed Use and DX- Downtown Mixed Use have been added to coincide with the Comprehensive Plan policies to foster redevelopment in the corridors and nodes districts and the downtown districts to match the character areas identified in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan.
Several overlay districts in the current zoning ordinance and map are being remov...
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