County rules for slaughterhouses, signs, camping and more are slated for significant revisions this year. Last week, planning commissioners held a workshop to hear more details about the coming revisions, which will not apply to the coastal zone, with many proposals garnering support and a couple drawing scrutiny. One of the greatest areas of concern revolved around tightening camping restrictions. Camping, said county planner Jeremy Tejirian, “really should, in my view, only be done in campgrounds, unless you’re talking about a hunting camp.” He said that camping in other areas, including on one’s own private property, can impact neighbors, communities and environmental health. The revisions will also like likely limit the number of days a person can stay at a campground. But one commissioner, Kate Crecelius, wondered why new camping rules were necessary and worried about the impact on homeless people. “We need to think it through,” she said. Mr. Tejirian also said sign regulations need a major overhaul, especially in light of a Supreme Court ruling two years ago that prohibited regulating the content of signs. In county regulations, “the whole framework is based on content,” Mr. Tejirian said, though the reasons for that are “lost in the mists of time.” Another forthcoming update includes allowances for slaughterhouses—which are now completely prohibited—with a focus on mobile units known as abattoirs. “It would start a small industry perhaps. It would never grow from there, but at least it would be an entry point and it would be more convenient and financially viable for the agricultural community to have something like a mobile slaughterhouse,” Mr. Tejirian said, adding that the units would also comply with existing state rules for slaughterhouses. Other forthcoming updates are in the works for construction management; the tree protection ordinance; wireless facilities, to comport with new F.C.C. rules; community gardens; residential chicken coops, which are not currently regulated; and satellite work centers, to reduce communing to other counties. A draft of the updates is slated for released later this summer, with periods for public review and comment.