(AP) — The overhaul of Lincoln zoning ordinances would make redevelopment easier and add new design and landscaping standards to ensure more attractive developments.

City planning staffers have been conferring with interested groups in a process that likely will take about a year.

Current zoning requirements were developed when suburban growth was flourishing. City planners believe there will be more development inside the city in the years ahead, so many of the zoning changes would guide the rejuvenation of rundown strip malls and shopping centers and promote areas of shops and housing.

The proposals include more rules on what materials can and cannot be used on building exteriors.

Planning documents say the goal is to “avoid blank walls, windowless facades, cheap materials and monotony.”