File #: 18-113    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 4/11/2018 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/8/2018 Final action: 5/8/2018
Title: Communication from the City Manager and Director of Community Development with a Request to Concur with the Planning and Zoning Commission to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending Appendix A, the UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, of the City of Peoria Relating to VARIOUS TEXT AMENDMENTS.
Indexes: Goal 3 - Beautiful Peoria, Grow employers and jobs., Have an efficient government., Reinvest in neighborhoods
Attachments: 1. ORD NO 17,575 (Item No. 18-113), 2. Attachment A to Memo - Ordinance, 3. Exhibit A to Ordinance - UDC Text Amendment, 4. Exhibit B to Ordinance - Permitted Use Table, 5. Attachment B to Memo - PZ Memo, 6. Attachment C to Memo - PZ Minutes
ACTION REQUESTED:
Title
Communication from the City Manager and Director of Community Development with a Request to Concur with the Planning and Zoning Commission to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending Appendix A, the UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, of the City of Peoria Relating to VARIOUS TEXT AMENDMENTS.

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BACKGROUND:
The Unified Development Code was adopted on October 24, 2016. After a year and a half of application of the Unified Development Code, some 'clean-up' items were identified, such as incorrect references, disconnects between sections, regulations that were inadvertently omitted, etc., which have been addressed in this proposed amendment. In addition, the follow in a summary of the primary changes in Unified Developments Code regulations:

ITEM
DESCRIPTION
APPENDIX A SECTION
Applicability Table Changes
Added footnotes:
* Setbacks outside of the Heart of Peoria area must always comply with District requirements.
* Use Performance standards, per Section 5.3.3, are always applicable, apart from those excepted out based on the threshold of work per the applicability table.
2.16 and 5.3

Shipping Containers
Changed the term 'portable storage' device to 'shipping container' and modified the definition to note that it shall not include portable on demand (POD) storage units, which are regulated by Section 13-37 of the City Code. If a shipping container is used for storage, it is regulated per Section 8.4.4. Outdoor Storage and Display. Shipping containers used for other than storage, are regulated as buildings and or building additions in all non- residential districts only, and are subject to applicability table requirements in Section 2.16 and building code requirements, including but not limited to fenestration requirements.
10.3
Transitional Buffer Yards
Added language to allow the option for the submittal of landscape plans through the alternative compliance process for transitional buffer yards.
8.2.9
Subdivision Definition
Modified the definitio...

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