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ORDINANCE #2017-32
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING MOAB MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 17.30.020, USE REQUIREMENTS, TO INCLUDE A USE OF SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL BUSINESS WITH STANDARDS IN THE C-5, NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL
ZONE AND ADD A DEFINITION OF THE USE TO MMC SECTION 17.06.020, DEFINITIONS
The following findings describe the intent and purpose of this ordinance:
a.The City has enacted Sections 17.35, Neighborhood Commercial Zone, of the Moab Municipal Code to serve as a transition/buffer zone between residential and commercial uses.
b.From time to time the City undertakes to revise its zoning ordinances to improve quality of land development.
c.The City has reviewed the uses specified in MMC Section 17.30.020, and determined that small neighborhood retail can be an allowed use in the C-5 Zone if appropriate standards are
applied.
d.The standards assure that the use will primarily serve people who live in the surrounding neighborhood and they can obtain daily goods conveniently and meet the purpose of the zone
to provide locations for “stores, shops and establishments situated in landscaped surroundings that are maintained in harmony with amenities of adjacent residential development.”
e.The City finds that this ordinance will serve the public health, safety, and welfare, and that adoption is in the best interests of the Moab community.
f.This ordinance was reviewed in a public hearing by the Planning Commission on August 24, 2017, and with the adoption of Planning Resolution -2017, the Planning Commission voted _-_
to recommend approval by the City Council.
Therefore, the City of Moab hereby adds a use of “small neighborhood retail” as letter “S” to MMC Section 17.30.020, Use requirements, as noted below;
17.30.020 Use requirements.
S. Small neighborhood retail uses less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet.
AND,
17.06.020, Definitions, shall be amended with the following definition of “small neighborhood retail”:
“Small neighborhood retail means a privately owned, small volume business that does not exceed one-thousand five hundred square feet in size and sells a variety of a small number of
goods and merchandise that appeal to local residents living in the area near the shop.”
In effect on the day of passage;
PASSED AND APPROVED in open Council by a majority vote of the Governing Body of Moab City Council on the 12 day of September, 2017.
SIGNED:
Tawny Knuteson-Boyd, Mayor Pre-Tem
ATTEST:
Rachel Stenta, Recorder