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Request for Council Action continued page 4 June 5, 1995 Proposed Zoning Code Amendment-Domestic Abuse Shelters • Mandatory screening would be required per the B-4 standards (fence or compact evergreen hedge not less than 50% opaque and not less than 6 in height abutting residential district properties). The B-4 Office and Professional Business District allows uses which are of relatively low impact on adjacent residential uses. In relation to the proposed Navarre site, the fomer church use provided a low key transition from commercial to residential uses. The proposed shelter use might provide a similar transition, and the site is large enough to provide for buffers. Arguments can be made for and against the need for additional commercially-zoned property in Navarre. The City’s 1988 Navarre redevelopment smdy encountered little enthusiasm among the business community for any significant changes to Navarre. Planning Commission has recommended that the residential CUP amendment be adopted. In reaching this conclusion. Planning Commission weighed the location perfomia^e standards of the residential amendment against the potential future commercial uses of the Navarre site if the shelter use disappears. Neighboring residential property owners strongly opposed the rezoning of the site to commercial, fearing future commercial encroachment into the neighborhood. If Council is concerned that the location performance standards of the residential CUP could be subject to variances, the residential CUP could be adopted only in the LR-lC/LR-lOl half-acre zone, which encompasses Casco Point as well as most of the residential ar^ north of Navarre and south of North Shore Drive from Sandy Beach to the Baldur Park area. This would exclude the shelter use from the Highway 12 commercial area, and would limit shelters to Orono’s highest density residential zoning districts. Process If Council adopts one of the draft amendments, it is expected that Westonka Intervention wilt file the appropriate CUP or rezoning/CUP application by the June 23 deadlme for public hearing at the July 17 Planning Commission meeting. Staff Recommendation If Council concludes that the Zoning Code should be amended to allow domestic abuse shelters, either of the drafts accomplishes this, with the variable being limiting the “se to jus areas zoned B-4 or opening it to residential neighborhoods limited (via performance standard ) to ^eas near commerdally-zoned properties. A four-fifths vote of the Council is required to amend the Zoning Code.