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#2327 - B-5 Amendment <br />February 20,1998 <br />Page 2 <br />Planning Commission Recommendation <br />Planning Commission reviewed this request at the January 20 meeting, and on a vote of 4-1 <br />retail sales, but not pizza retail sales (see January 20 minutes). It was concluded that pizza sales <br />would be a high traffic generator, in conflict with the intent of the B-5 district, and potentially could <br />have odor problems, late hours of operation, and other potentially negative impacts as compared to <br />most other uses contemplated for the B-5 district. <br />Commissioner Hawn was the minority opinion, indicating that the rezoning of the applicants site a <br />year ago did not contemplate restaurant uses, and that such uses are not generally appropriate for the <br />B-5 district. <br />Planning Commission also recommended that staff research and draft appropriate conditions for <br />these tw'o uses in order to limit them in scope, magnitude and character to a neighborhood use rather <br />than as something that would draw from a wide region, in keeping with the neighborhood services <br />intent of the B-5 district. Such conditions might include: <br />That the restaurant use must be a non-primary tenant in a building used primarily for <br />a permitted or conditional use that is not a restaurant (this could be a method to avoid <br />freestanding fast food operations) <br />Limitation on square footage, and/or percentage of total building, devoted to each <br />individual restaurant use <br />Limitations on the capacity of fans allowed for exhaust venting (i.e. do not allow <br />operations which require exhaust venting above a certain cubic feet per minute) <br />Strict adherence to signage limitations <br />Such conditions and limitations have not yet been developed; how^ever, if Council conceptually <br />agrees with the Planning Commision recommendation, staff will draft ordinance language for the <br />March 9 council meeting. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />The Planning Commission recommendation iiuicrcntly suggests that the B-5 (and perhaps all our <br />zoning districts) need to be updated to reflect current use categories. The coffee and bagel retail <br />sales uses are appropriate in the context of a locally-oriented service district abutting a residential <br />neighborhood, as long as controls are in place to avoid those uses or activities which could be a