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Council amends neighborhood shopping rules to allow pet daycare and other uses; ordinance passes unanimously
Summary
Council approved a text amendment to Tucker Code Chapter 46 to add several uses — including pet daycare and pet grooming — to the Neighborhood Shopping district and to add amusement game rooms to specified districts. Planning Commission recommended approval; council vote was unanimous.
The Tucker mayor and city council approved Ordinance O2025-3-6 on second reading and by public hearing on March 24, 2025, amending the city’s zoning ordinance (Chapter 46) to add or clarify several permitted uses in the Neighborhood Shopping zoning district and related use tables.
Courtney Smith, city staff who introduced the item, told the council staff recommended adding thrift/secondhand/antique stores, child daycare centers, places of worship, pet daycare and pet grooming, home health care services, and alcohol manufacturing (brewery and distilled spirits) as permitted uses in Neighborhood Shopping. Smith also recommended removing automotive service stations and emission stations from that district and adding pet daycare as a special land permit (SLP) allowance in the DT‑3 downtown district. The amendment adds an “amusement game room” use in several tables and updates definitions.
A business owner, James Bradley, spoke in favor during the public hearing to explain his family’s FurBusters grooming and daycare operation on Main Street and to ask council to approve the code changes. No speakers registered opposition.
Why it matters: the change creates clear, city‑wide rules for small retail and service businesses that seek to operate in neighborhood shopping areas and gives specific routes for pet daycare in downtown (DT‑3) via SLP. Smith said the change followed staff direction after a previous rezoning denial at 5950 Hugh Howell and is intended to provide consistent rules rather than repeated rezoning requests.
Vote and formal action: Council approved Ordinance O2025-3-6 on second reading. The motion carried unanimously (7–0).
Ending: Smith and council members said the amendment brings clarity to business owners and staff about permitted uses within neighborhood shopping districts; staff will publish the ordinance and update land‑use tables accordingly.
