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September 11, 2019 <br />Centerville City Council <br />Page 7 of 10 <br />RE: Downtown Zoning Updates <br />Accessory Structures and Storage in the CBD <br />At the August 13 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, there was a discussion of accessory <br />structures in the downtown. The consensus was that accessory structures should be allowed, with <br />reasonable conditions and restrictions. A related issue is whether storage or warehousing as a <br />separate use should be allowed within the principal structure, and how to better regulate this in <br />the zoning code. Please note the distinction between an accessory structure, which is a separate <br />structure on the site, and an accessory use, which is some use of space, but it could be in the <br />principal structure or in a separate accessory structure. The following are options to consider. <br /> <br />The Zoning Code currently does not allow accessory structures to be constructed in the M-1 and <br />M-2 districts. This is indicated in the zoning code table of uses for these districts by the absence of <br />a P or C in either the M-1 or M-2 columns across from Accessory Structures. In order to allow for <br />the M-1 and M-2 columns for the row listing accessory buildings. This would allow the Commission <br />and the Council to place reasonable conditions on the construction of accessory structures. <br />Accessory structures for residential uses are regulated by a list of conditions in the zoning code <br />structures in non-residential areas. However, the conditions and regulations placed on these <br />structures are much less stringent. One option could be to include a list of conditions in the zoning <br />code text for accessory structures in non-residential areas as well. Zoning Code section 156.107 is <br />already referenced in the Zoning Code table of uses, so any regulations added to the zoning <br />code text would be applied to accessory use structures in the M-1 and M-2, if they were to be <br />allowed. A list of proposed conditions is shown in the summary on the next page. <br /> <br />A related issue is whether storage should be allowed as a use within the principal structure. <br />Currently storage is allowed as a principal use in the I-1 industrial area. Mini storage is allowed as a <br />conditional use, and warehouse/distributing is allowed as a permitted use in I-1. Storage is not <br />allowed now as a principal use within the M-1 and M-2 downtown areas. Certainly, most typical <br />commercial uses within the M-1 and M-2 would have storage as an accessory use within the <br />principal structure. For example, restaurants typically have some amount of space that is used for <br />storing goods and equipment, but the principal use would not be considered storage. One could <br />say that the storage is accessory, and incidental to the principal use as a restaurant. Every office <br />use has some kind of storage space or closets, but it is also accessory or incidental. <br /> <br />This raises the question of how much space would be allowed as storage or warehousing within a <br />principal structure. The zoning code currently does not provide limitations on the amount of <br />warehouse or storage space within a principal use, although the storage could not be the <br />principal use under current code. We suggest that storage be indicated in the zoning code as a <br />permitted accessory use as long as it is directly related to and incidental to the principal use. <br /> <br />87 <br /> <br />