The Yellowstone County Board of Planning initiated this separation of the City and County Unified Zoning Regulations on June 13, 2017. This separation of the Unified Zoning Regulations will facilitate the future update, revisions and alignment of the regulations to goals and policies set by the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners. There are no additions, deletions, or modifications to the  existing Unified Zoning Regulations except to the extent to remove combined references and modify sections that apply either only in the City or only in the County. The City and County Zoning Commissions held a special joint public hearing on July 17, 2016. The City Zoning Commission is forwarding a recommendation to approve the separation of the zoning regulations on a 3-0 vote. The City Council approved the ordinance on first reading August 14, 2017. A second reading is required to approve the changes.

City Council may:

• Approve the text amendment as recommended by the Zoning Commission;
• Deny the text amendment; or
• Withdraw the text amendment; or
• Delay action on the text amendment for up to 30 days.

There are no substantive changes to the zoning regulations adopted for implementation within the City Limits. There will be a financial cost to have the City's municipal codification service provider - Municode - update the the City's adopted code. The cost for this update will be paid in coordination with the City Clerk's Office and the Planning Division budget. Staff has contacted Municode for an estimate, but had not received detailed information on the cost at the time this memo was drafted.

With a 3-0 vote, the Zoning Commission recommends that the City Council approve the zoning code separation.