First updates of the uniform development regulation of Greenwood to become law

The first update of the uniform development regulation of Greenwood will become a law after the coordination of a commission on Wednesday evening.

The Greenwood Advisory Plan Commission was 7-0, with the members Steve Milbourn and Brian Walker not present to say goodbye to the changes to the city council. The Commission had previously given the Council a favorable recommendation about the first updates, but since the council had changed the changes, it had to return to the Commission so that it could result in a report on whether the members agreed to the changes.

The Udo is a number of regulations and rules that lead the development in the city. It contains the zoning code and the subdivision of the city. The UDO sets acceptable building standards for apartment departments, commercial buildings and industrial rooms. It also determines where certain types of development can go and what can be permitted with a special exception or variance.

For this first sentence of updates, which is a forerunner for a complete update of the UDO that is still running, and the first since 2020 is the changes to Section 10 of the UDO, including elements such as zoning uses, special exceptions, signs and fences.

These first updates focus on “uncomplicated changes”, including the treatment of articles with a high variance, the cleaning of the glossary, clarification and expanding the permissible land use and the updating of building level standards. These adjustments make the regulation more effective and user -friendly, said Gabe Nelson, planning director.

Various changes in this first update consolidate and simplify different types of companies and add or remove types of companies in certain zoning areas of the city.

With regard to the user table, both bakeries and data centers would be added for the first time and new types of recreational uses. Beauty salons and personal care would be divided into different categories, and both would be added as permissible uses in the old town.

Data centers that are loud and require a lot of water and electricity are equipped with specific standards. Data centers could not exceed 55 decibels during the day and 50 decibels at night; Would need an 8-foot Berm for visual screening; would include developmental features with a low impact; And could not be within 1,000 feet of residential properties.

With regard to changes in the design and construction standards, they were driven by trends that city officials noticed and had to work together with deviations.

One trend is that developers often want to use several materials in their projects. The UDO currently says that the back of a structure should use the same materials as the prevailing side of the structure. However, trends tend to use several materials to offer a unique design, said Nelson.

Houses with the same predominant storage material could also be built side by side, although houses next to each other still have to have different front surveys. At the moment, for example, two houses, which are mainly on the side with Hardie -Plank, could not be built next to each other, said Nelson.

At the beginning of this month, the city council made additional changes to the updates. This included that the Udo expressly announced that data protection fence doors are not allowed to swing through pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, so that the gates do not block the paths, and the word “trim” to a line that the conformity is discussed under a section for residential building designs, the word “centers for the recycle of water and the masonry for a section for one of the ways” “Paths” of cities for cities for cities for houses.

In particular, if a house is required to be 50% masonry both on the front and the back, the two sides must also have masonry. This would be under Path 1, said Nelson.

During the session of the plank commission on Wednesday, the Commission approved the changes. There were comments on the types of fences in which the change in the council dealt. Nelson said it focused on the data protection fence for residential buildings.