The Willard City Council unanimously approved sweeping amendments to the city’s Master Planned Community (MPC) zoning ordinance during its March 27 meeting, aiming to clarify density calculations, tighten open space requirements, and ensure consistent expectations for future large-scale residential developments. The MPC zone was designed to allow flexible, master-planned neighborhoods with a mix of housing types, shared amenities, and integrated infrastructure. But in practice, city leaders said the original ordinance left too much room for interpretation, especially when it came to how many homes could be built and what land qualified as open space. “So, what this says is when...

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