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June 15,2023
Mayor Robert Simison and City Council
City of Meridian
33 E. Broadway Avenue
Meridian, ID 83642
SUBJECT: 2023 UDC Text Amendment—Narrative
Mayor and City Council Members:
In accordance with Meridian City Code 11-5,the Planning Division of the Meridian Community
Development Department respectfully submits a zoning text amendment application. This is the first one
in a series of others to follow in the upcoming year.
This phase of text changes includes several modifications throughout Chapters 2-5 of the Unified
Development Code(UDC)and are clean-up items that have been tracked since the last code update. The
most notable text changes are as follows:
1. Table 11-2A-2—Allowed use table in the residential districts: Proposes to allow family daycares in the
R-2 zone;
2. UDC 11-2B-3A.3—Commercial standards: Proposes to allow a maximum height of 100 feet in some of
the commercial districts when it is within a certain distance of the I-84 corridor.
3. UDC 11-4-3-2 Arts, entertainment or recreational facility, indoors or outdoors specific use standards:
Proposes to require conditional use permit for outdoor lighting if compliance with the lighting standards
isn't feasible.
4. UDC 11-4-3-10 Drinking establishment specific use standards: Proposes to remove the prohibition of
this use when it is within three hundred feet of a church or education institution.
All the proposed changes to the UDC including the support documents are attached for your review in
PDF format. This round of proposed UDC text changes went through a thorough and collaborative with
the UDC Focus Group.
City Staff believes the proposed changes will make the implementation and use of the UDC more
understandable and enforceable.
Sincerely,
Bill Parsons,AICP
Planning Supervisor
Enclosures
cc: Bill Nary
Bruce Freckleton
Community Development Department . 33 E. Broadway Avenue, Suite 1.02, Meridian, ID 83642
Phone 208-884-5533 ■ www•meridiancity.org