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Council hears development-code changes to clarify ancillary businesses and ease small-scale entertainment permits; item tabled for fee details
Summary
City planning staff proposed a development-code amendment intended to ease requirements for ancillary businesses and to create an entertainment-license alternative to conditional-use permits for small, low-risk events.
City planning staff proposed a development-code amendment intended to make it easier for ancillary businesses and low-risk entertainment uses to operate, but council members asked for clearer fee and enforcement language and agreed to table the item for further refinement.
Planner Keith Gardner told the council the proposal clarifies definitions and provides a streamlined pathway for ancillary commercial uses (separate businesses operating wholly within another tenant space) so long as both activities are allowed at the same land-use level. The draft would permit an ancillary use where entrances and exits are entirely within the primary business, hours match the primary…
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