Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The Columbus Zoning Code, Title 33 of the Columbus City Codes, contains a list of uses that are prohibited within the city. This code chapter, Chapter 3387, has not been updated in over 24 years and contains outdated language as well as prohibits uses that have been rendered safer through modern industrial processes and would be better regulated as a Special Permit Use.
This ordinance revises Chapter 3387, "Prohibited Uses" and along with a companion ordinance updating the Special Permit uses contained in Chapter 3389, will create the regulatory framework, including definitions, in order to appropriately regulate certain uses. Multiple code definitions and sections have been added or amended to facilitate the understanding, implementation, and enforcement of these regulations.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No funding is required for this legislation.
Title
To repeal and enact a new Chapter 3387, Prohibited Uses, of the Columbus Zoning Code, in order to update the list of prohibited uses and to modernize the language associated with them by amending and adding various definitions to Chapter 3303 of the Columbus Zoning Code.
Body
WHEREAS, trends in development continue to evolve making periodic updates to the Zoning Code necessary; and
WHEREAS, numerous definitions in the Zoning Code are in need of being created or revised for better understanding, interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of the Zoning Code; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Zoning Code, Title 33 of the Columbus City Codes, contains a list of uses that are prohibited within the city in Chapter 3387; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 3387, "Prohibited Uses", has not been updated in over 24 years and contains outdated language as well as prohibits uses that have been rendered safer through modern industrial processes and would be better regulated as a Special Permit Use; and
WHEREAS, this code change will create the regulatory framework, including defini...
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