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Text amendment allowing outdoor cafes and valet parking as temporary uses in the Uptown district

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Staff proposed zoning text amendments to allow outdoor cafes and valet parking as temporary uses on vacant parcels in the Uptown business district during the outdoor dining season. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing and continued it by a vote of 9–0. At the continued hearing on May 23, 2023 it recommended the amendments as modified at the meeting, which dropped private parking lots from the outdoor dining provision and tied the time limit to the outdoor dining season. The vote was 8–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.

Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded), May 23 2023. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Public hearing · Recorded in minutes

    Commission opens the hearing and continues it

    Hearing date: May 9 2023. Motion to continue (item IV.a). Item IV.a: the motion carried (9 to 0).

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-09, Planning and Zoning Commission, May 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-09, Planning and Zoning Commission, May 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-09, Planning and Zoning Commission, May 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
  2. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in minutes

    Planning and Zoning Commission recommends the amendments as modified

    Hearing date: May 23 2023. Item IV.a: the motion carried (8 to 0).

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-23, Planning and Zoning Commission, May 23 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-23, Planning and Zoning Commission, May 23 2023. Open the quote and source.

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Official source records

  1. Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-09

    Planning and Zoning Commission, May 9 2023

  2. Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2023-05-23

    Planning and Zoning Commission, May 23 2023

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  1. Edition 2(current)

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