ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to Concur with the Recommendation from the Planning & Zoning Commission and Staff to ADOPT the Following:
A. An ORDINANCE Amending Appendix B, the Zoning Ordinance, of the CODE of the City of Peoria, with Respect to MURALS IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, and
B. An ORDINANCE Amending Appendix C, the Land Development Code, of the CODE of the City of Peoria, with Respect to MURALS IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.
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BACKGROUND:
In an effort to revitalize small commercial corridors, there has been interest in incorporating murals. Some of the smaller commercial corridors have properties that are zoned single-family residential but contain permitted commercial uses, such as a neighborhood store, or legal non-conforming commercial uses that were established prior to the current regulations.
The current ordinance prohibits murals in residentially zoned districts; however, there seem to be instances where it is appropriate to have a mural in a residential district; particularly when a property contains a permitted non-residential use but the property is zoned single-family residential. The proposed text amendment continues to prohibit murals on single-family and multifamily structures/uses, and associated accessory structures, but allows murals on structures within residentially zoned districts that were either originally designed for walking-scale, neighborhood-oriented retail use and services, such as a neighborhood store, or on uses that are allowed as a Special Use in single-family residential districts, such as a church, or other legal non-conforming uses.
Planning and Zoning Commission Action:
The Planning and Zoning Commission VOTED 6 TO 0 TO APPROVE.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: N/A
IMPACT IF APPROVED: Murals would be permitted on non-residential structures or uses in single-family zoning districts.
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