Collierville planner outlines changes to 'cleanup' zoning ordinance; board approves first reading

Town planner Jamie Krause briefed the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen on March 23 about a zoning ‘cleanup’ ordinance (Ordinance 2026-01) that will return for a second reading with targeted edits. Krause said the changes will expand site-plan approval criteria to explicitly require consideration of neighborhood character and adverse off-site impacts, add an infrastructure adequacy criterion, and simplify the conditional-use permit standard by removing overly broad or inapplicable language (for example, references to transit or hospital coordination that the town does not use in permit review).

Krause told the board that most of the packet material had been discussed at the January retreat and that the planning commission had made recommendations. She said staff intends to present the full, revised ordinance and a public hearing at the board’s second reading. After the briefing, members had no substantive changes at the meeting and the board approved the ordinance on first reading.

Krause emphasized the intent is clearer, narrower criteria so that site-plan review and conditional-use review address neighborhood character, infrastructure capacity and mitigation of off-site impacts without including irrelevant items. The second reading will present the exact revised language for final action and public comment.