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In June 2006, the Duluth City Council adopted a new Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the City of Duluth, the result of an intensive, community-based process to determine the long-term future of Duluth's physical development. Now, the City is moving forward in implementing the Comprehensive Plan with the development of a new legal framework for comprehensive land use regulations.
The new Unified Development Chapter of the City of Duluth Legislative Code (Chapter 50) will replace the City's current 50-year old zoning ordinance.
The Unified Development Chapter will:
incorporate contemporary approaches to neighborhood revitalization, mixed uses and natural resource protection regulations;
bring together all of the City's development and zoning related sections into one simplified, unified document; and
include a streamlined development review and approval process which will allow the City to be more efficient and responsive to its citizens and the needs of the development community.
This
project is being funded in part by generous grants from the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation and the Coastal Zone Management Act, by NOAA's Office of
Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, in cooperation with Minnesota's Lake Superior Coastal Program and
with funds from the City of Duluth's General Fund.
