The Planning Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals page on the City website now has a link to a press release (PDF) which I believe was written by Brian O’Connell. I don’t know when or if it was sent out – when I asked Scott Peterson at KYMN if he’d seen it yet, he hadn’t as of this morning. I’m posting it here in its entirety:
The Planning Commission of the City of Northfield has made significant progress
on the revision and re-writing of the Land Development Code of the City. The
Land Development Code is an important series of rules that will serve to
implement the recently adopted Comprehensive Plan.The hard and persistent work of this group has resulted in changes to the initial
draft code that has created a greater degree of clarity and usability of the code by
builders, developers, citizens, Commission and Council members as well as
administrative staff. The Planning Commission continuously refers to the
Comprehensive Plan to ensure that the Land Development Code reflects the
Policies and direction established in the plan.The Commission has sought and obtained numerous comments from builders and
Developers in the Northfield area along with representatives of Boards and
Commissions of the City and the public in general. Armed with this input, the
Commission has been able to complete the review of three of the six articles of the
document and is making clear progress on the remaining portions of the Code.The Commission is working on a review schedule that involves weekly meetings.
The Commission anticipates completing their review of the Code in the
next several months at which time discussion with the City Council and the public
at large will begin with the goal to adopt a new Land Development Code later in
the summer of 2010.
