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hiring an outside consultant to assist and advise on legal issues involved in land use planning.
In May. 1976, looking ahead to the update of the county’s ordinances required in two years by state law, the planners began discussions on zoning and subdivision law revisions. Areas mentioned over the following two years included:
—changing most of the uses allowed by right to the special permitted use category in order to give county authorities more control, particularly over home businesses,
—including a provision for “contract zoning,"
—updating county zoning maps.
— dividing residential subdivision into two zones, one with 25 acre minimum lot size and the other with five acre minimum,
—adding a recreation district,
—transferring authority for issuance of special use permits from the board of zoning appeals to the supervisors,
—including more specific controls, particularly on type of structure allowed, for
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