Land Development Regulation Updates

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The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 7pm, on proposed amendments to the Land Development Regulations.

LDR-22-09: Updates to Article 12 Environmental Standards, including, but not limited to modification of the Class II wetlands buffer boundary in some residential areas, streamline administrative permitting process, and remove permitted, human-made steep slopes from regulation as steep slopes.

• LDR-22-09 Article 12
• Planning Commission Report
  

Prior Actions:
City Council held a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Land Development Regulations December 5, 2022. This hearing included LDR-22-07 and LDR-022-08, as described below.

• LDR-22-07: Realign Commercial 1-Residential 15, Commercial 1-Auto, and Commercial 2 zoning district boundaries along the Shelburne Road corridor
• LDR-22-08: Allow Municipal Facilities as a permitted use in the Commercial 2 zoning District and allow the following uses within Commercial 1 Auto District: Congregate Care, Assisted Living, Continuum of Care; Educational Facility; Educational Support Facilities; Hospice; Municipal Facility; Skilled Nursing; Social Services, as shown on the table on the following page.
• Planning Commission Report
• City Council Public Hearing Notice, December 5, 9 pm

The current regulations were adopted by the City Council on November 21, 2022. This most recent set of amendments expanded the City's Transferable Development Rights Program to include receiving areas within higher density mixed use zoning districts and made some technical corrections throughout. Prior to this round, the City established a "General PUD", Site Amenity requirements, and modified Site Plan standards in May 2022. A minor correction to these amendments was approved by the Council in July 2022 to address a missing sheet from the initial adoption. On February 7, 2022, the City Council adopted a set of amendments to changes to the City's Land Development Regulations. These includes updated Environmental Protection Standards, a replacement of the City's Subdivision, Master Plan, and Planned Unit Development standards, a series of Zoning District changes, and several stand-alone amendments including extension of Inclusionary Zoning city-wide, requirement for solar-ready roofs on commercial buildings, updates to accessory apartment and accessory structure standards, stormwater standard revisions, and more. Below are a series of 1-2 page "spotlights" on each of the proposed amendments, by general category

• Spotlight on Wetlands
• Spotlight on Habitat Blocks & Habitat Connectors
• Spotlight on Steep Slopes
• Spotlight on Floodplains
• Spotlight on River Corridors
• Interactive Map viewer of draft and proposed regulations

• Spotlight on Subdivisions
• Spotlight on Master Plans
• Spotlight on Planned Unit Developments, the "Traditional Neighborhood Development" PUD Type, and the "Conservation PUD" Type

• Spotlight on Hinesburg Road, south of I-89
• Spotlight on the Southeast Quadrant
• Spotlight on Shelburne Road

Stand-Alone Amendments

• Spotlight on Inclusionary Zoning
• Spotlight on Accessory Dwelling Units
• Spotlight on Accessory Structures
• Spotlight on Residential Design
• Spotlight on Solar Ready Roofs, Solar street layout, and Solar parking lot canopies
• Spotlight on the SEQ-Natural Resource Protection District
• Spotlight on other Minor Amendments
  
  

Have any feedback you'd like to share with us? Email us at planning@sburl.com. 

Public Comment Received

• Written Comments Received 10/18/21-10/26/21
• Written Comments Received After Closure of Hearing
• Written Comments Received for 01/03/22 City Council Public Hearing 12/29/2021
• Written Comments Received for 01/03/22 City Council Public Hearing 01/03/2022 
• Written Comments Received for 01/10/2022 City Council Public Hearing 01/07/2022
• Written Comments Received for 2/07/2022 City Council Public Hearing 02/03/2022

Link to EPS Project Page
Link to Master Plan / PUD Project Page