Gravel Parking Lots in the Unified Development Code

At a glance

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What: Ordinance amending UDC section 6.2.8 to allow gravel or compacted aggregate parking in place of paving for infrequently used lots (not more than 55 times a year), plus administrative relief from landscaping for lots over 10 spaces.
Where it stands: Recommended for approval on second reading on 2026-10-19; it was split from the agricultural ordinance after a 3 to 2 Planning Commission vote on the combined version.
Next: City Council reading.

Intended for overflow lots for places of worship, parks, agricultural and similar uses; ADA spaces and access to the public right-of-way must still be paved.
Businesses with ordinary daily use of parking (example: a plumbing shop with no walk-in customers) would not qualify.
Stormwater: gravel is treated as about 80% impervious in drainage reports but not counted as impervious for a possible future stormwater fee, per City Engineer Cobb.
On the work plan for a couple of years, per Charles Bloom.

Charles Miller: document mismatch between the combined and split ordinances, whether the 3 to 2 Planning Commission vote considered the broader scope, and the no-customer loophole; asked that it be voted separately. The motion was made on item 19 separately.
Greg Smith of the mayor's council on disabilities said the ADA requirements were well explained.
The same exceptions were raised later against Frontier Days Parking Lot Easement at F.E. Warren Air Force Base.

About 16 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-19 - Public Services Committee	16

2026-11-02 - Public Services Committee - on the agenda again (UDC and municipal code amendments); result not yet recorded.
2026-10-19 - Public Services Committee - committee recommended approval on second reading, voted separately from the agricultural items.