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Council narrows proposed buffer for sensitive-use retail to 300 feet, bans such uses on Key Avenue
Summary
Council members amended a draft zoning provision that had included a 2,000-foot buffer, instead approving a motion to prohibit the specified sensitive-use retail within 300 feet of schools, day cares, health-care facilities and churches and to disallow them on Key Avenue; the item was approved on a voice vote at the workshop.
Council members debated a proposed ordinance amendment addressing locations of certain "sensitive-use" retail outlets (transcript language varied; speakers used terms including "smoke/backwash shops" and "baby shops"). Staff said the Planning and Zoning Commission cannot modify ordinances and that the commission had…
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