Agenda - 05-04-2021; 5-b - Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendments

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Additional Note for Future Consideration 18 • Statutes now require that, if a local government exercises zoning authority, the local government also must have an adopted Comprehensive Plan that is "reasonably maintained. " • Timeframe for updates not mandated • In a 160D training session School of Government staff offered that a fast growing community may need to update every 5-10 years, a moderate growth community every 10-15 years, and a slow growing community could possibly go longer. • General planning practice (nationwide) is to update every 10 years, usually commencing with the release of Census data. • A recent Information Item memo on affordable housing issues written by the staff attorney to the BOCC included recommendations to update the County's Comprehensive Plan and subsequently create and adopt a "modern" U DO.