Fredericksburg City Zoning Code

Within forty (40) days following receipt of the recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, the City Council shall hold at least one public hearing on the Text Amendment or Rezoning. Within twenty (20) days following the closing of a public hearing, the City Council shall make a specific finding as to whether the change is consistent with the objectives of this Ordinance and with the Comprehensive Plan. If the change is not consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, the Comprehensive Land Use Plan must be amended prior to a zoning change, as prescribed in section 5.300.If the City Council finds that the change is consistent with the Zoning Regulations and the Comprehensive Plan, it shall introduce an ordinance amending the Zoning Districts Map, whichever is appropriate.

No application for a zoning change, including the establishment of a planned development district, for property which includes all or part of the same property which was described in a previously denied application for a zoning change, shall be accepted by the department earlier than one year after the date of final action on the prior application, unless:

1)

The Director of Planning and Building determines the use for which the new application is made is not the same or a similar use to that proposed in the previously denied application; or

2)

The Director of Planning and Building determines that conditions relating to the property adjacent to the property which was the subject of the previously denied application have substantially changed, in which case a six-month waiting period shall be imposed from the date of the final action of the city council on the prior application, until a new application can be filed.

Subsequent applications.

1)

When an application has been withdrawn. An application for a zoning change, including the establishment of a planned development district, may be withdrawn at any time. If the application has been advertised in compliance with state law, an application requesting substantially the same rezoning request on all or part of the same described land shall not be reconsidered within six (6) months of withdrawal.

(Ord. No. 2026-09, § 2, 2-17-2026)