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Council weighs two options for 'retail other' zoning: SUP or administrative permit
Summary
Planning staff presented two options to handle unlisted 'retail other' land uses — require Special Use Permits (SUPs) for such uses or create an administrative use permit allowing staff to apply SUP‑style conditions; council generally favored an administrative route for efficiency but requested appeal/backstop language and clear limits.
City planning staff told council that the existing zoning ordinance includes more than 200 listed charter permitted uses but that market changes have produced uses that do not fit neatly into current categories. Staff recommended two approaches to handle the gap in the "retail other" category: (1) require that any unlisted retail‑type use obtain a Special Use Permit (SUP), which triggers review by the planning…
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