17 - Zoning Change for Trailers in the Commercial DistrictItem No. 17
TO: Mayor& City Council
John Godwin, City Manager
FROM: Alan Efi-ussy, AICD', City Planning Manager
SUBJEcr: ZONING CHANCE FOR TRAILERS IN THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
DATE: December 5, 2017
BACKGROUND: The background staternent for this zoning change request is the sat -fie
information that is described in the meniorandurn recommending the zoning change for trailers
in the Central Area (CA) Zoning District. At the December 4, 2017 commission meeting, no one
spoke either in favor of or in opposition to this request, and the commission voted unanimously
to recornmend approval of this amendifient to the Zoning Ordinance.
STATUS OF ISSUE: Over the past several months, the staff has received rezoning requests to
create Light Industrial Zoning Districts to allow applicants to establish trailer rental or sales; they
are permitted in Central Area., Light Industrial, and Heavy Industrial Zoning Districts,However,
they are not allowed at all in the Cornmercial District. During the period staff has received
requests for trailer sales, many of these requests were to rezone areas within existing commercial
zoning districts, This could lead sometimes to spot zoning,, and/or the intrusion into the
continuity of an existing commercial zone, and/or the potential of incompatible Light Industrial
uses adjacent or near single-family (or other residential uses) if the trailer sales ten-ninates or is
never established, To address these issues, this public hearing is to bring forward a change in the
Zoning Ordinance that would provide applicants the opportunity for trailer rental or sales by
creating the Specific Use Pen -nit process in the Commercial District, and also still permit trailer
rental and sales within the Light Industrial and Heavy Industrial Zoning Districts, A further
advantage of this zoning amendment would be that if a trailer sales and rental project was
approved through the SUP process within a Commercial District, should that use not develop or
cease, the Commercial District would still remain on the subject property, because if a SUP is
ten-ninated or eliminated, the base underlying zoning would rernain. Hence, the subject
surrounding and/or nearby Commercial Zoned areas would still contain a compatible
Commercial property, as opposed to perhaps an incompatible Light Industrial District, in light of
the existing zoning procedure described above. The commission supports this staff
recommendation.
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RECOMMENDATION: Amend Zoning Ordinance No. 1710 by creating the Specific Use
Permit process within the Commercial (C) Zoning District to allow the sale and rental of trailers,
and also still permit trailer sales and rental as a pennitted use within the Light Industrial and
Heavy Industrial Zones.
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