LDCT-2025-28 (Flex Space & Retail Plazas)
Description
Recommended new definitions and standards for flex space buildings and retail plazas, fixing the warehouse-vs-office review confusion.
Impact summary
Clearer, faster review for mixed-use flex buildings; part of a broader LDC modernization coming in future months.
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 2
Last vote · Planning Commission
A recommendation. The council’s outcome is not on record here.
Last discussed Apr 7, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
Board of County Commissioners — April 7, 2026
A code text amendment creating separate definitions and standards for flex space buildings versus retail plazas, fixing buffering, landscaping and parking requirements. First reading only — adoption comes in two weeks.
Planning Commission — March 4, 2026
Recommended new definitions and standards for flex space buildings and retail plazas, fixing the warehouse-vs-office review confusion.
Related issues (2)
Flex space and retail plaza standards
New rules will clarify how mixed flex buildings — part warehouse, part office, part retail — get reviewed, ending the current case-by-case guessing game on parking and landscaping. Aimed at helping small businesses lease space.
Industrial storage yards land use
A new 'storage yard' category lets landowners in industrial districts temporarily store pipes, transformers and equipment — with 100-foot setbacks from homes, screening, and fencing to keep the yards from becoming eyesores.
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