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Ephrata solicitor sends zoning text amendments on short-term rentals and retail cannabis/tobacco back to county for review
Summary
The Borough Solicitor presented revised zoning text amendments to permit short-term rentals in specified commercial districts and to allow medical marijuana dispensaries and smoke/tobacco shops in limited commercial districts; both drafts will be sent to Lancaster County Planning for review and then scheduled for public hearings.
The Borough Solicitor discussed two revised Zoning Ordinance text amendments that would change where short-term rentals and certain retail uses are allowed in Ephrata.
On short-term rentals, the proposed amendment would permit short-term rental of dwellings by right in the HCD, CBD, LIC and GIC zoning districts; it would allow short-term rentals in NCD and NCD2 only by special exception. The draft would remove permission for short-term rentals in several residential and planned districts, including RLD, RMD, RHD, LPD and CD. The Solicitor told the Committee the revision must be returned to Lancaster County Planning for review and then scheduled for a public hearing.
Separately, the Solicitor presented a draft amendment that would permit medical marijuana dispensaries and smoke shops and tobacco stores by right only in the HCD, LIC and GIC districts. That draft also must be returned to Lancaster County Planning for review and then scheduled for a public hearing, the report states.
The committee report does not record debate detail or votes on the drafts; it records that the Solicitor discussed the revisions and the procedural next step of county review followed by public hearings. The report does not include text of the proposed ordinance language or any written recommendations from Lancaster County Planning.
