From
Chris Hartmann
Title
TA180701 - Text Amendment - Article 4, Use Chart Update and Article 22, Fee Schedule. Amendment to the Unified Development Code, Article 4, "Permissible Uses" to revise the use chart and to revise Article 22, Fee Schedule. An Amendment to the Unified Development Code to revise the use charts to define and establish applicable districts for certain auto-related uses, industrial uses, and freight/transport uses, and billiard parlors. (On October 1, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval of changes to the use chart pertaining to billiard parlors and recommended postponing all other proposed changes to further evaluate their development impact.)
Presenter
David P. Jones, AICP, Chief City Planner
Recommended Action
Approval
Analysis
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
Grand Prairie continues to see a steady amount of development applications in the sectors of industrial development and auto-related businesses. Current standards regulating these business types within the City's zoning districts are often based on outdated or inadequate use descriptions and definitions. The City periodically makes updates to its use charts and definitions to account for changes in terms and technology, and recent trends within the market require that the city consider such changes at this time in order to effectively provide for quality development with minimal impact. The amendment proposed herein seeks to accomplish three goals:
a) Update use charts to account for new or changing uses.
b) Reevaluate the appropriateness of some uses within certain zoning districts and change the use charts to remove or restrict a use from certain zoning districts.
c) Organize use charts to provide ease of reference by consolidating or removing redundant or contradictory use categories and putting similar uses together.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS:
Proposed changes to Definitions are found in Exhibit i and include:
· Revised definitions for Auto Repair.
· New de...
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