Planning staff asks commission to initiate text amendment to allow motorcycle-only repair on smaller lots

Planning staff told the Norfolk Planning Commission that an applicant has requested a text amendment to reduce lot-size and frontage requirements so motorcycle-only repair shops could qualify for a conditional use permit on smaller lots.

The request stems from zoning changes adopted after a 2014 comprehensive-plan amendment that, staff said, established larger lot and frontage standards (20,000 square feet and 100 feet of frontage) for vehicle sales and service uses to address impacts such as vehicle storage, display and queuing. Staff said those thresholds currently apply to “automobile repair, automobile sales, recreational vehicle sales, rental and maintenance, and taxi and limousine service facilities,” and that the city’s code follows the Department of Motor Vehicles’ definitions so…