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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 rela...
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