Title
Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request by the City of McKinney to Amend Section 146-101 ("CC" - Corridor Commercial Overlay District) and Section 146-139 (Architectural and Site Standards) of the Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 146 of the Code of Ordinances), and Accompanying Ordinance
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic Growth
MEETING DATE: March 17, 2015
DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT: Michael Quint, Director of Planning
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approve the proposed amendments to Sections 146-101 ("CC" - Corridor Commercial Overlay District) and 146-139 (Architectural and Site Standards).
ITEM SUMMARY:
* Staff is proposing a series of amendments to the architectural and site design standards which are intended to address the following topics which were expressed by the City Council, Planning and Zoning Commission, and members of the Development Community:
o The standards should mandate quality but should be flexible enough to remain competitive with sister cities;
o The standards should allow more material types;
o The standards should focus more on architectural design including, but not limited to fa?ade offsets;
o The existing standards are too restrictive;
o The current point system is too confusing; and
o The current architectural and site design standards create delays in the overall development timeline.
* Prior to drafting any ordinance amendments, Staff first set out to thoroughly evaluate the City of McKinney's existing architectural standards, the stated issues with these standards, and possible ordinance frameworks. The result of this evaluation was a document titled "Architectural and Site Design Standards: Analysis and Recommendations." This document, which was written by Staff, includes a preliminary set of draft regulations (due to the significant number of changes, a "tracked changes" version could not be produced) and the original analysis from 1999. It also ide...
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