HomeMy WebLinkAbout1988-09-20 OrdinanceCMINMCE NO.
O1mIWCE TO NM THE ZCNING OPOINWICE CWVJIER 36-
23, THE CQd XL4L IMIISIVE (CI -1) ZCNE.
WiME 4, the City adopted in Ordinance No. 87-
3357 a provision to allow small scale manufacturing
and assembly uses in the CI -1 zone; and
WiSM, it has become apparent that the dimen-
sional requireents included in that provision are
too restrictive to reasonably allow the type of
manufacturing appropriate for the CI -1 zone to
locate there; and
VFEWS, it is in the interest of the community
to encourage the location of basic industry in Iowa
City and to target the location of certain types of
manufacturing to redevelop blighted areas, but to
limit the scale of such operations in what is
primarily a commercial zone.
NOW,1FUHM, BE IT MINED SY H CITY CCKIL �
OF IM CITY, THAT:
I. SectionINt�c) (4)a. be deleted and the
following inserted in lieu thereof:
a. The floor area for the manufachring portion
of the use shall not exceed 5,000 square
feet.
2. section 36-23(d)(4.5) be deleted and the
following inserted in lieu thereof:
Uses engaged to any extent in light
manufacturing, arpoudirg, assembly and/or
treatment of articles, as provided in
Section 36-23(c)(4), where the floor area
for the manufacturing portion of the use t
exceeds 5,000 square feet, provided,
M~, that the floor area for the
manufacturing portion of the use shall not
exceed 15,000 square W.
SECTION II. SEVMILF If any section, provi-
sion or part of the Ordinanoe shall be adjudged to
be invalid or uhoonvtitutional, gich adjudication
shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a
wale or any section, provision or part thereof not
adjudged invalid or mrcanstitutional.
SECTION IIT. EFFECTIVE (ATE. This Ordinance shall
be in effect after its final passage, approval and
publication as required by law.
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City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
Date: August 25, 1988
To: Planning & Zoning Commission
From: Karin Franklin, Senior Planne
Re: Amendment to the CI -1 Zone
The City has received serious inquiries recently from potential users of
vacant buildings in the Highland/Gilbert Court area. These users are
light manufacturing in nature. The CI -1 zone permits "uses engaged to any
extent in light manufacturing..." provided that among other things the
total floor area of the use does not exceed 5,000 square feet. One of the
buildings, in which there is an interest, has a total of 18,000 square
feet.
When the CI -1 zone was amended to permit manufacturing, the limit of 5,000
square feet was intended to apply to the entire establishment. If a firm
wished to locate in the area and occupy a 10,000 square foot building with
5,000 square feet of manufacturing, 4,000 square feet of warehousing and
1,000 square feet of office space, the firm would not be granted a
building or occupancy permit. However, if the entire operation was only
5,000 square feet, the use would be permitted. In the attached amendment,
it is suggested that the reference to 5,000 square feet in: 36-23(c)(4)a.
be to "the manufacturing portion of the use." This would still control
the amount of manufacturing activity but would permit unrestricted
warehouse and office use even though these uses were associated with a
manufacturer. Warehouse and office uses are permitted by right in the CI -
1 zone, so the change does not add any potential impacts which may be
associated either with warehousing (truck traffic) or with office uses
(employee/client car traffic). These are factors which may come into play
even if manufacturing were prohibited. The change does allow up to 5,000
square feet of manufacturing or processing use (up to 10,000 square feet
by special exception). The other provisions applicable to these uses -
performance standards and prohibited types of manufacturing - still
apply.
The staff recommends approval of this amendment to facilitate reasonable
development in the CI -1 zone and respond to economic development
opportunities.
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Approved by:/
or Director
Department of Planning & Program Development
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