File #: 15-0335    Name:
Type: Agendas Status: Passed
File created: 9/14/2015 In control: Board of Aldermen
On agenda: 10/6/2015 Final action: 10/6/2015
Title: Continuation of June 23rd Public Hearing on Land Use Ordinance Amendments to Modify the Presumptive Parking Requirement for Restaurants with Outdoor Seating PURPOSE: The purpose of item is for the Board of Aldermen to adopt a resolution to further continue its consideration of amendments to the Land Use Ordinance to modify the presumptive parking requirements for restaurants with outdoor seating in the B-1(c), B-1(g) and B-2 zoning districts.
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Resolution, 2. Attachment B - Draft Outdoor Seating LUO Amendment - 6-10-15, 3. Attachment C - Excerpt from the Board's 6-23-15 Minutes

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Continuation of June 23rd Public Hearing on Land Use Ordinance Amendments to Modify the Presumptive Parking Requirement for Restaurants with Outdoor Seating

 

PURPOSE:  The purpose of item is for the Board of Aldermen to adopt a resolution to further continue its consideration of amendments to the Land Use Ordinance to modify the presumptive parking requirements for restaurants with outdoor seating in the B-1(c), B-1(g) and B-2 zoning districts.  

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DEPARTMENT: Planning

 

CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325; Nick Herman - 919-929-3905; Marty Roupe - 919-918-7333

 

INFORMATION:  At the June 23rd regular meeting, the Board of Aldermen opened a public hearing to consider text amendments to the Land Use Ordinance relating to parking requirements for restaurants with outdoor seating.  The ordinance under consideration, if adopted, would modify the parking standards from one space per four outdoor seats to one space per eight outdoor seats within the three downtown zoning districts: B-1(c), B-1(g) and B-2 (Attachment B)

Agenda materials are available at the following link:

<https://carrboro.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=388585&GUID=F75209F2-5E07-4F85-A309-5D9B50F8D7DB&Options=&Search>=.

Meeting minutes, also available at the link above, are included as Attachment C.

Following presentation of the ordinance and discussion, the Board of Aldermen requested additional information relating to travel mode behaviors and directed staff to prepare and distribute questionnaires to restaurants with outdoor seating to determine if outdoor diners are more likely to walk or bicycle to a restaurant than their indoor counterparts. 

 

Staff have delivered outdoor dining surveys to twenty-one restaurants in the downtown area and have, to date, received more than three hundred completed responses.  During conversations with restaurant owners, staff identified a metric which may provide additional insight into diner behavior and the relationship between location, outdoor seating and parking demand.  Staff would like to pursue this, and requests that the Board of Aldermen further continue the hearing to November 24th. 

 

FISCAL & STAFF IMPACT:  Minimal staff impacts are anticipated in relation to continuing consideration of the proposed text amendments. 

 

RECOMMENDATION:r  Staff recommends that the Board of Aldermen consider the resolution (Attachment A) to continue the public hearing until November 24, 2015.