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City Tackles Antique Zoning Code

Posted by: Tim Halbur

21 September 2009 - 7:00am

The zoning code of Alamogordo, NM hasn't been revisited since April of 1950. Today, the zoning rewrite group is finally updating the code and making the switch to a form-based code in the process.

"[Alamogordo city planner Marc South] said the city is carefully moving toward form-based zoning as it is a much more complex system.

The biggest impediment to the process is that zoning should follow a comprehensive plan and not lead it, South said.

"But we are where we are, so we're picking up and running with it," South said."

Full Story: 58-year-old zoning code being revised
Source: Alamogordo Daily News, September 18, 2009
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