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Planning commission debates updates to zoning appendix to cover new uses and conditional permissions
Summary
Commission members reviewed Appendix A and discussed adding or clarifying categories for data centers, 3‑D printing, solar fields, animal services, shipping container storage, farmer's markets, day cares, EV charging and breaking retail/industry into subcategories; members favored adding conditional permissions to control location and impacts.
Commissioners spent a significant portion of the meeting reviewing potential amendments to Appendix A of the zoning code to account for emerging uses and to give the city more discretion in where certain uses may locate.
Chair walked the commission through the list, noting concerns about data centers and several industrial and service‑type uses. "We don't currently have things that allow, disallow, or — this is kind of another situation like the Walmart trailer where, how do you handle that?" the Chair said. A committee member recommended adding a conditional symbol on the map legend to allow certain uses (for example farmer's markets or multifamily overlays) only in specific locations rather than as a blanket allowance.
Members discussed breaking retail into small‑scale versus large‑scale and separating light and heavy industrial uses, adding accessory dwelling unit (ADU) rules, and treating EV charging as a retail‑type use. The commission agreed to take the suggested organization and conditional approach away for further study and to revisit the appendix at a future meeting.
