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Council reviews proposed land-use chart changes: live-music setbacks, hotels, vape-shop rules and warehouse uses
Summary
City staff proposed multiple changes to the land-use chart and use definitions, including consolidating event facilities with live music, setting a 100-foot residential setback for live music in the downtown plan, allowing hotels by right in the mixed-use downtown district, and treating vape/CBD retail as a special use permit.
City planning staff reviewed a set of proposed land-use chart changes and use-definition clarifications at the Oct. 27 City Council workshop, asking for direction on where certain activities should require special use permits versus being allowed by right.
Highlights from staff's recommendations
- Live music and event facilities: Staff proposed combining event facilities with live music/entertainment uses and implementing a 100-foot setback from residential uses in the downtown master plan area. The recommendation would keep live music permissible in several commercial zones (C1, C3, BP and mixed-use downtown) with distance limitations and other conditions.
- Hotels in the MUDT (mixed-use downtown) district: The advisory committee recommended…
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