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Pocatello staff seek direction on broad Title 17 zoning amendments, including new 25-year grandfathering rule and limits on storage and car-wash uses
Summary
City planning staff asked the Pocatello City Council whether to proceed with a package of proposed updates to Title 17 zoning regulations that include a 25-year sliding grandfathering rule, restrictions on self-storage in commercial zones, conditional permitting and spacing for car washes, and reduced minimum lot sizes to allow higher housing density.
Jim Mangelsy, long-range planner for the City of Pocatello, and city planning staff briefed council members on proposed amendments to Pocatello City Code Title 17 and asked for direction on whether to proceed to ordinance drafting and public hearings.
"We are looking for your direction on whether we should proceed with these proposed amendments to title 17," Mangelsy said, introducing changes that range from administrative clarifications to use-table revisions and dimensional standards.
At the top of the list, staff proposed codifying a 25-year sliding grandfathering rule so that any structure 25 years or older (measured from the current date) would qualify as "grandfathered" if it does not meet current zoning standards. Mangelsy said the change would replace the longstanding, harder-to-administer 1981 cut-off and ease records review: "So anything 25 years or older, would then be considered grandfathered."
Planning staff also proposed amendments to the use table and development standards that would: make self-service (public) storage not permitted in Commercial General and Office Park…
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