CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: June 25, 2020
Agenda Date: July 8, 2020
Prepared By: Dodie Selig, Planning & Zoning Manager
Through: Nancy A. Bunt, Community Services Director
Requested Action:
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Pass on Second Reading: Ordinance No. 06-2020; amending permitted locations for self-service storage facilities and amending the definition thereof.
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BACKGROUND:
The Applicant has proposed a change to the city code related to self-service storage facility use. They represent a client with an existing self-storage business within the city wishing to expand. Because of inconsistencies within the existing city code, the applicant's client is unable to move forward and has requested staff's help to modify the code. A review of how the use is treated in different areas of the code has highlighted the need to make some modifications. The City desires to simplify and clarify the code descriptions of self-service storage facilities, also referred to in the code as "personal storage," "personal storage warehouses," or "mini-warehouses." Therefore, the following changes are proposed by this ordinance:
* Amendment of the conditions for self-service storage facilities under the C-R (Restricted Commercial) and C-G (General Commercial) zoning districts, where such facilities require special exception approval.
* Addition of the use as a principal use under the C-W (Wholesale Commercial) zoning district, with conditions.
* Removal of the use "personal storage" and "personal storage warehouses" from the CBD (Central Business District) and the M-2 (Manufacturing and Industrial) zoning districts, respectively.
* Amendment to the definition of a "personal storage warehouse" and retitling the use as a "self-service storage facility," which will be a consistently used term for all zoning code references to this use.
* Amendment to the parking regulations for "storage facilities" to provide a consistent parking requirement for the self-service storage facility us...
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