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Commissioners press staff to clarify 'car wash' definition, suggest including self-service option
Summary
During a detailed review of ULDC definitions, commissioners questioned language excluding 'self-service' from the car-wash definition and suggested either adding a specific self-service definition or including self-service and treating differences as design standards.
Commissioners spent substantial time debating the language in the proposed "car wash" definition after spotting a sentence that said, in effect, that "car wash shall not include self-service car washes." Several commissioners said excluding a self-service category without defining it created ambiguity and recommended adding a separate definition or broadening the term to include self-service and rely on design standards to differentiate impacts.
One commissioner argued the two types have different visual and operational impacts and that the code should reflect those differences: "They look completely different," the commissioner said, urging staff to either add a "self-service" subdefinition or include self-service within the main definition and distinguish the types later in the code. Staff (Ferguson) agreed to mark the item for further context review and to resolve the inclusion or separation of self-service car washes when related use tables and design standards are considered.
