Review and Discuss Proposed Neighborhood Business District

Summary

• For some time, the City Council and staff have discussed creating a neighborhood business district that would allow for small-scale neighborhood commercial for area generally not along Highway 10 or Highway 47.
• The Planning Commission met on July 12, 2018 to discuss the proposed Neighborhood Business District.
• The district would allow for a parcels that don't currently fit the City's zoning ordinance to rezone and comply with new standards.
• The Planning Commission recommended allowing on-sale liquor sales in the district, to allow for liquor sales in small cafes and restaurants.

Key Issues

• Providing opportunity for non-conforming, small-scale commerical in residential neighborhoods to conform to existing code
• Create future opportunities for small, neighborhood businesses

Please see the attached July 12, 2018 Planning Commission case.

Additionally, please note that this case is being triggered to correct a zoning conformance issue with The Learning Lodge/Northern Secretarial Services. Several years ago, the City issued a Conditional Use Permit for these uses when Lord of Life vacated this building to relocate to their current location. Unfortunately, these uses were not listed as a Conditional Use, and the City Attorney has directed Staff to provide a zoning correction so that this use is an allowable use. This nonconformity has created issues for financing for the Owner of The Learning Lodge/Northern Counties Secretarial Service.

This new district would also have some utility based on some recent land use discussions. For example, a microbrewery is being proposed along TH 47 surrounded by a residential area that this district could be applied to. Additionally, certain parcels near the new elementary school may be a candidate for this type of utility. The City Council is not obligated to consider these areas, but Staff offers them for discussion.

?Finally, no actual parcels, other than The Learning Lodge/Northern Counties Secretarial Services, are formally proposed to utilize this proposed district at this time. As a future step, parcels that could utilize this new district would be identified.

Staff would like to create the new district by the end of 2019.

No funding is being requested. Staff is handling this update as a portion of normal duties.

Community Development Department (Planning)

Staff is looking for direciton on how to move forward with proposed changes, and if the City Council feels any changes need to be made to the proposed district.