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McCall adopts code updates including self-storage exception and streamlined daycare review
Summary
City Council approved Ordinance 10-33 on Jan. 8, amending multiple code chapters to remove outdated impact-area references, allow limited self-storage tied to multifamily projects, and reclassify certain day-care uses as administrative in medium-density zones; council deferred creating a wildfire-risk map to a later planning process.
The McCall City Council adopted Ordinance 10-33 on Jan. 8, approving amendments to Titles 2, 3 and 9 of the McCall City Code intended to remove references to a former area-of-impact body and to modernize use definitions and procedures.
City planning staff told the council the changes were largely "cleanup" and focused on several specific topics. "The one that we worked most in detail on was, how to make an exception for a prohibition on self storage facilities, to make sure that they're allowable if they're related to residential development," the planner said. Under the change, self-storage can be allowed when it is clearly secondary to a primary multifamily residential use and is well screened from public rights-of-way.
Staff also explained a proposed revision to reclassify care centers (including day care) in the R-8 medium-density residential zone from a conditional use to an administrative use, reasoning that the state regulates licensing and the local planning review adds little value in those cases. The draft code also updates the municipal definition of "hotel" and removes references to the former McCall Area Joint Planning Commission.
One public comment (submitted in writing) asked for more specificity about public-hearing rules, annexation-related authority, and an insertion addressing high wildfire-risk areas. Staff said the city does not yet have a site-specific wildfire-risk overlay map and recommended deferring a formal wildfire-area designation until the comprehensive plan and associated mapping work can provide evidence-based boundaries. Council members agreed to treat the public-hearing conduct language as a work-in-progress and to accept a staff amendment that narrows the area-of-impact language to parcels requesting annexation.
After brief discussion, the council closed the public hearing, waived rules as necessary, read Ordinance 10-33 by title and adopted it as amended. Council directed staff to continue a broader "phase 2" code audit through the coming year to address remaining items such as wildfire mapping.
The ordinance passed on a roll-call vote.
Ordinance 10-33 amends multiple chapters of Titles 2, 3 and 9, modifying permitted and prohibited uses, clarifying planning commission membership and eligibility, and updating public hearing procedures.
The council's action does not establish a formal wildfire map at this time; staff will pursue mapping and overlay options as part of the comprehensive-plan and code-audit work.
