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Discussion of Draft Land Use Ordinance Text Amendments Establishing a New Social Service Provider with Dining Services Use Classification and Associated Requirements
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is for the Board to review a draft ordinance that would amend the Land Use Ordinance to establish a new social service provider with dining services use classification as a permissible use in certain zoning districts.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325, Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327, Marty Roupe - 919-918-7333, Mike Brough - 919-929-3905
INFORMATION: At a June 16, 2015 work session, the Board of Aldermen discussed a text amendment request from the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, Inc. (IFC) to establish a new "community kitchen" use classification in the Land Use Ordinance (LUO) (Attachment B). The Board directed staff to proceed with the preparation a draft ordinance while seeking additional information from the IFC regarding the proposed use and its potential effect on surrounding properties. Staff sent the IFC a series of questions based, in part, on comments from the Board's discussion; the IFC's responses (included as Attachment D) were used to help craft the draft ordinance (Attachment C). Staff also met with members of the Town Police and Fire departments to discuss the proposed use and later reviewed information on 911 calls for service with administrative staff of the Police Department at the former Chapel Hill Men's Shelter, the existing IFC facility in Carrboro and throughout the downtown area to supplement the information from the IFC's questions and answers. Police personnel will be available at the meeting to answer questions that Board members may have on this topic.
If adopted, the draft ordinance would establish a new use, tentatively called "social service providers with dining facilities" to the list of definitions in the LUO, add the use to the Table of Pe...
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