Agenda Date: 11/27/2018
Subject:
Title
An update to the recreation definition and shooting ranges in the zoning code
Body
Presented By:
Steve Kemp, City Attorney and Jocelyn Mills, Community Development Director
REQUESTED COUNCIL ACTION:
Does city council support staff proceeding to the planning commission with a recommended update to the definitions pertaining to recreation in the zoning code and to incorporate a conditional use requirement for all gun range locations?
BACKGROUND:
The recreation definitions address a number of unrelated uses in our zoning code. As with many of the definitions in the code, they do not relate to the actual uses or define uses that should be addressed separately. As staff brings to the council amendments to the code, we recommend correcting these definitions.
An example of this problem is the definition of gun ranges. Currently indoor gun ranges are treated as an indoor recreation use. Outdoor gun ranges have no standards and are treated as outdoor recreation.
These definitions have been carried over into planned developments throughout the city that allow recreational uses in general without reference to the city's definitions. This has resulted in a number of incompatible uses being principal permitted uses with no further review. Staff has done an analysis of the recreation definitions and the conditional use portion of the code and recommends a number of amendments.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
The mixture of uses in our recreational definitions and the lack of definitions under the recreational section for some uses such as sexually oriented businesses is a critical problem that needs to be addressed. Most cities, such as Lakewood and Fort Collins provide specific definitions for these uses and identify the uses by definition in the land use chart. This was also a recommendation of Clarian Associates when they review the definitions of the Littleton Code in 2015.
Staff proposes to create specific definitions for a nu...
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