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Council adopts zoning cleanup and technical amendments to outdoor seating and multiple zoning definitions
Summary
Council approved ordinance O7-25 to align outdoor-use code language with the new zoning ordinance and O8-25 to add clarifying definitions and standards (first readings passed); amendments are technical clarifications tied to zoning implementation.
The City Council approved ordinance O7-25 and took first reading and approval action on O8-25 on Sept. 8 to clean up code references and clarify definitions introduced by the new zoning ordinance.
Community Development Director Kristin Kaplansky said O7-25 removes outdated references (for example, sidewalk cafés) and aligns city-code language for outdoor seating and temporary sale/consumption of alcohol with the new zoning ordinance. "We're not changing the substance of anything in how we do outdoor seating reviews. What we are doing is removing references to sidewalk cafes because those are no longer referenced in the zoning ordinance," Kaplansky said.
Ordinance O8-25 adds and clarifies definitions (for business services and live-work units), refines site-area and site-layout guidance, clarifies driveway, garage and accessory-structure rules, adds standards on window and temporary signs, and reinstates residential rules for on-site parking and storage of recreational vehicles that were omitted during the rewrite. Kaplansky said the planning commission held a public hearing and recommended approval; staff received no public comments on the amendments.
Council members asked for examples such as what constitutes a "hard surface" for residential parking (Kaplansky responded that examples include concrete, asphalt or pavers and that parking on grass is not permitted). Kaplansky said a second, smaller round of clarifying amendments is likely but smaller in scope.
