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Not quite sure what to make of this. But I have a feeling a few on the board have their opinions.

Planning board favors new zoning for colleges, institutions

By ALICIA PETSKA
Published: July 28, 2010

Lynchburg’s planning commissioners decided Wednesday to focus on creating a new zoning designation for colleges and other institutions in an effort to streamline regulation of those entities.

The option of putting together a new zoning designation was chosen over other ideas such as crafting a separate system of institutional overlay districts.

An overlay district creates an additional layer of regulations that “lay over” a property’s original zoning. In contrast, a straightforward zoning designation imposes only one set of rules on affected properties.

“It’s just a lot simpler,” said planning commissioner Ted Hannon. “And it still gives the landowner the right to opt in or say, no, we’re happy with what we’ve got. It lets them decide.”

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