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Moab City Council Agenda Item
Meeting Date: September 12, 2017
#: 9-1.
PI-17-126
Title: Consideration to Adopt Ordinance #2017-32 Amending the Moab Municipal Code
with the Addition to the C-5 Zone of a New Use to be Called Small Neighborhood
Retail, as Referred to Council by the Planning Commission
Date Submitted: September 4, 2017
Staff Presenter: Jeff Reinhart, City Planner
Attachment(s): Ordinance #2017-32
Options: Approve, deny, or modify.
Recommended Motion: I move to adopt Ordinance #2017-32 and approve the
addition of Small Neighborhood Retail in the C-5 Zone to MMC Section 17.30.020.
Background/Summary:
The City has received inquiries for limited retail in the C-5, Neighborhood Commercial
Zone. The attached Ordinance #2017-32 will allow a variety of goods to be sold in a
structure that does not exceed one -thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of floor area.
City Council members were approached by staff to evaluate legislative support for the
change and all expressed interest in this concept.
The amendment also includes the addition of a definition of "Small neighborhood retail" to
be added to MMC 17.06.020, Definitions, to read,
"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."
The Planning Commission reviewed Ordinance #2017-32 at their regular meeting held on
August 24, 2017, and voted 4-0 to refer the ordinance to City Council with a
recommendation to approve.
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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 day of , 2017.
SIGNED:
David L. Sakrison, Mayor
ATTEST:
Rachel Stenta, Recorder
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