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• CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING DATE: 3/27/95 AGENDA ITEM: ~' ITEM: Consideration of proposed amendments to the city's zoning code related to zoning for gun shops SUBMITTED BY: Susan Hoyt, City Administrator REVIEWED BY: Eric Galatz, Attorney with Leonard, Street and Deinard Ellen Sampson, City Attorney EXPLANATION/DESCRIPTION: Background. At the February 27, 1995 planning commission meeting the commission discussed how to proceed with zoning for gun shops. Gun shops (stores that sell firearms) are currently included in the city's commercial development moratorium. Firearms are uniquely controlled by state statute (attachment 1). The commission discussed three options for zoning for gun shops: 1) making it a permitted retail use in the B - 3 Snelling and Larpenteur Community Business District; 2) prohibiting the use; or 3) making it a conditional use in a B - 3 zone with specific conditions related to its proximity to protected uses and buffering from residential areas. Protected uses include the school, the church and the park. The commission decided to pursue the third option, making gun shops a conditional use at a location with a maximum distance from protected uses. Map Staff created a map with distances from the two B - 3 commercial retail corners to the protected uses and adjacent residential areas (attachment 2). The map clearly identifies the northwest corner of the Snelling and Larpenteur Community Business District as the furthest retail area from the three identified protected uses and as the most buffered (although not the most distant) from adjacent residential uses. Proposed zoning code amendments (attachment 3) The following zoning code amendments would accomplish making a gun shop a conditional use at the northwest retail corner of Snelling and Larpenteur Avenues in the B-3 Community Business District. • Amend chapter 9 part 1.01 subdivision 2 definitions to include definitions of firearms, antique firearms, firearms dealer and gun shop.