Title 18 - Unified Development Ordinance

18.100.049 Adoption by Reference of the Downtown Form-Based Code; Relationship to Other Provisions of the Code.

1. A.
   There is incorporated by reference, for the purpose of adopting the Downtown Form-Based Code within the City, the Downtown Form-Based Code, dated July 1, 2024, as prepared by the City of Overland Park, Kansas. A copy of the Downtown Form-Based Code shall be marked "Official Copy as Incorporated by Ordinance No. ZRR-3447," to which shall be attached a copy of the ordinance codified herein, and filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable business hours. The Municipal Court and all administrative departments of the City charged with the enforcement of the ordinance shall be supplied at the cost of the City such number of official copies of such ordinance as may be deemed expedient.
2. B.
   Where provisions of the Downtown Form-Based Code are identified as standards, they shall be considered ordinance requirements, and where they are specifically applicable they shall prevail over any conflicting provisions elsewhere in the Unified Development Ordinance unless otherwise specified. Where provisions of the Downtown Form-Based Code are identified as guidelines, those guidelines have been developed to identify quality elements that should be incorporated in downtown projects, and are to be used by applicants, architects, planners, developers, city staff, Planning Commission and Governing Body members to assist them in, where appropriate, designing, reviewing, evaluating, recommending and approving plans for such projects.

(History: Ord. No. ZRR-3447 §14, 2024; Ord. ZRR-3416 §3, 2023; Ord. ZRR-3373 §3, 2023; Ord. ZRR-3370 §1, 2022; Ord. ZRR-3355 §15, 2022; Ord. ZRR-3247 §1, 2019 Ord. ZRR-3188 §1, 2018; ZRR-3134 §24, 2016; ZRR-3037 §1, 2016; ZRR-3045 §1, 2015; ZRR-2922 §1, 2011; ZRR-2887 §1, 2011)

Effective on: 1/1/1901