HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 26-08 Amending Chapter 113 of the Falcon Heights City Code Concerning Commercial Parking Lot LicensesORDINANCE NO.26.08
CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 113 OF THE FALCON HEIGHTS CITY
CODE CONCERNING SPECIAL EVENT COMMERCIAL PARKING LOTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF FALCON HEIGHTS ORDAINS:
SECTION I. Section 113-3 of the City Code of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, is hereby amended
to add the following definition (Deletions are shown with a strikethrough. Additions are
underlined):
Soecial event commercial parking lot means any commercial zonedpremise (.8-1^B-2" or
R-? znnino\whcre motor vehicles are nqrkerT or ^ll^.ttorl fn ramqin fnr o foo qf qnrz nninf
SECTION II. Section Il3-t77(e) of the City Code of Falcon Heights, Minnesota is hereby
amended to read as follows (Deletions are shown with a strikethrough. Additions are underlined)
(e) Permitted accessory uses. The following uses shall be permitted accessory uses:
(1) Ofl-street parking and loading, signs, fences, and decorative landscape features as
regulated herein.
(2) Temporary construction buildings (approved by zoning administrator)
(3) Accessory structures other than private garages as regulated herein. The design,
placement, screening, and size of the accessory buildings must be approved by the city
council as being in harmony with the surrounding business district and neighborhood
after review and recommendation by the planning commission.
(4) Essential service structures, provided no building shall be located within 30 feet of an
abutting lot in an R district. The placement of the essential service structure must be
approved by the city council as being in harmony with the surrounding business district
and neighborhood after review and recommendation by the planning commission.
(5) Public telephone booths or drive-up service. The placement of the telephone booth or
drive-up service must be approved by the city council as being in harmony with the
surrounding business district and neighborhood after review and recommendation by the
planning commission.
(6) Planned landscape areas and edible landscape areas, including residential gardens, as
defined and regulated in section 54-38.
(7) Electric vehicle charges for public use.
(8) Special event commercial parking lots. with city-issued license as outlined in Chapter
of this chapter.
lots are also ect to
(S) (9) Other as deemed to be normal, customary, and incidental by the zoning administrator.
SECTION III. Chapter 113 of the City Code of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, is hereby amended
to create a new Section 113-410 as follows (Deletions are shown with a strikethrough. Additions
are underlined):
Section ll3-410 - Special event commercial parkinq lots
lots are
business in the B-1. B-2. or B-3 zonins The followins standards shall aoolv to all
special event commercial parking lots:
(t)No special event commercial parkine lot nermitted on a oarcel of land that contains
qnrr recidenficl rrse reoerd.lecsof fhe znnino district
(2)Businesses must obtain a special event narkins lot license as outlined in
Chapter 14. Article X prior to operatine the lot.
(3)Parkins is onlv nermitted on naved desioned for off-street narkins There shall
hc no nerLino on boulevards nr riohfq-nf-rvev
(4)The charse for narkins shall be clearlv at the enfrRnce to the narkinq lot in letfers
of suffrcient size to be readilv seen from the street- Advertisins for narkins sales cannot
be posted on trees or utility poles.
(s)Outside sales of merchandise that is not of the adiacent husiness is not nermitted.
SECTION IV. Effective date. This ordinance is effective immediately upon its passage and
publication.
ADOPTED this 8th day of July,2026,by the City Council of Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
BY:
Randall
AITEST:
Mayor
J City Administrator