Council adopts ordinance lowering minimum lot width to 50 feet

The Brutin City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 26-309-1, which reduces the minimum lot width requirement in Appendix A of the city's land-use ordinance from 75 feet to 50 feet.

Brock, a city staff member who presented the item, told the council the Planning Commission reviewed the amendment and approved it unanimously. Brock said the change "will allow people to be able to subdivide their property that have substandard lots and actually be able to use them and build on them to where right now they're unable to do so." He described the measure as aimed at enabling owners of existing substandard lots to create building lots that meet the new minimum.

Following the presentation the council moved, seconded and voted to adopt Ordinance 26-309-1 as recorded in the meeting transcript. The record shows the motion and the affirmative vote; the transcript does not specify an effective date for the ordinance or additional implementing language.

The ordinance alters a dimensional standard in the zoning/regulatory text, which may enable additional residential subdivision and development on lots previously classified as substandard. The Planning Commission's unanimous recommendation was noted in the council discussion; no members of the public spoke regarding this item at the meeting.