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Mooresville staff to add 'cat café' use to zoning code; board signals preference for conditional permit
Summary
Planning staff introduced a text amendment to add a 'cat café' use to the Unified Development Ordinance; staff, planning board and commissioners discussed allowing the use by right in some commercial districts versus requiring conditional review to limit proliferation.
Veronica Bateson, planner 2 with Planning and Community Development, presented a proposed text amendment (TA-2025-05) to add a defined "cat café" use to Mooresville’s Unified Development Ordinance so businesses that combine a lounge of resident or adoptable cats with a separate compliant food-service area can operate under local zoning.
Bateson said the proposal would allow cat cafés in a range of commercial and mixed-use districts by right in some zones and by conditional zoning in others. "The Unified Development Ordinance does not currently have…
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