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STAFF ORIGINATOR: C. C. MEETING DATE: TOPIC: AGENDA ITEM 7 F Jeff Smyser September 22, 2003 First Reading, Ordinance 21 -03 Amending Zoning Ordinance to Include Personal Services as Permitted Uses in the GB General Business Zoning District and Amending the Definition of Personal Services VOTE REQUIRED: 3/5 BACKGROUND The major revisions to the zoning ordinance included amending and reorganizing the uses allowed in each of the zoning districts. In the business districts, the uses now are more generalized than before. The previous lists were very specific, which created a problem for uses that were not listed but were common activities in commercial areas. We discovered an oversight that should be corrected. Both the Neighborhood Business and Limited Business districts specifically list "personal services" as permitted uses. The General Business district does not. (See attached permitted uses lists from those districts.) In the definitions, Section 1, Subd. 2.B., the ordinance says: Personal Service. Personal services shall include the following: barber shops, beauty salon, electrolysis, manicurist, tanning parlor, physical therapy, therapeutic massage, and tattooing. All three districts include sortie type of "service business ", a generalized category. However, since "personal services" are listed separately in two districts as well, there is a distinction. Personal services should be included in the GB district as well. The GB district is the most intense commercial zoning district. If personal service businesses are acceptable in the less intense districts, they should be allowed in GB as well. The proposed amendment would add "Personal Services" to Section 7, Subdivision 3.F., the list of permitted uses in the GB district.. With approval of the first reading by the City Council, the second reading would occur on October 13. It would be published the next week on October 21, with an effective date 30 days later.