| criteria of the Zoning Ordinance as stated. He said an ordinance change |
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| that would permit this use would probably have an impact on a number of |
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| other sites. He said if they consider changing the language to require two |
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| major thoroughfares as one of the criteria, that would mean that any corner |
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| in the city becomes subject to it. He felt that it could be possible to change |
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| the language from "nonresidential zoning" to "nonresidential use." |
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| However, the difficulty here deals with existing nonconforming uses. For |
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| example, if it's a nonconforming business type situation on residential |
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| property, do you allow the nonconforming use to change a residential parcel |
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| next to it into another business. He said they could also change the criteria |
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| much more substantially than that. He said there's no doubt in his mind that |
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| this parcel has some attractiveness. He said if there was a way to change |
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| the ordinance to make it easier that also wouldn't open up all kinds of |
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| possibilities, then that's worth looking at. |
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| Ms. Goodwin said if this goes forward to City Council, their response is |
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| likely to be that it doesn't conform to the Master Plan. If at some point the |
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| Planning Commission is saying there may be some circumstances which |
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| only zoning can address, then it would first have to come as part of the |
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| Master Plan or at least an intent at some point to change the Master Plan in |
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| a way that the zoning will be consistent. She said it's true that there are |
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| other properties that would be involved. She commented that the city has |
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| spent a considerable amount of money defending the zoning on the other |
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