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instance, the zoning code neither defines the use nor offers any regulations that help to 59 explain why office-based classes are treated differently than other office uses in a zoning 60 district designed for exactly that. 61 5.3To address these kinds of changes in the zoning code, Planning Division staff is 62 proposing to make the following general amendments: 63 a. Add a second definition for colleges/post-secondary schools to clarify the distinction 64 between campuses and office settings; 65 b. Add the office-based educational facility as a permitted use in the CB District, and as 66 permitted uses with heightened screening requirements in the NB District; and 67 c. Replace the “school of business or trades” use in the O/BP District with the office- 68 based academic use and allow it as a permitted use rather than as a conditional use. 69 The full, proposed amendment in draft ordinance form is included with this report as 70 bold Attachment B, and is shown in and strikethrough text. Please note that Attachment 71 B omits large portions of the zoning code and only includes those portions which are 72 subject to the proposed amendment, along with selected content to provide additional 73 context surrounding the proposed changes; nothing is proposed to be added or deleted 74 from the zoning code which is not explicitly shown. 75 6.0PC UBLICOMMENT 76 6.1As of the time this report was prepared, Planning Division staff has received one phone 77 call about the proposed , and the same subjects of the phone ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT 78 call were discussed in detail at the duly-noticed public hearing held by the Planning 79 Commission on June 6, 2012; draft minutes of the public hearing are included with this 80 staff report as Attachment A. 81 6.2Several questions pertaining to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan were raised at the public 82 hearing, but not all of them were answered at the time. One outstanding question was 83 whether 2803 Lincoln Drive, a property with a CB land use designation, conforms to the 84 Comprehensive Plan’s description of CB properties being located on streets classified in 85 the Transportation Plan as “A Minor Augmenter” or “A Minor Reliever;” neither Lincoln 86 Drive nor Terrace Drive is classified as such in the Transportation chapter of the 87 Comprehensive Plan. In fact, many streets circulating through CB-designated areas are 88 not minor-arterial-class streets—many of the streets in these commercial areas are local 89 streets. This is not a violation of the Comprehensive Plan. Instead, it a reflection of the 90 fact that the minor arterial classification designates metropolitan-level roadways that 91 augment the network of principal arterials and relieve overflow traffic rather than 92 denoting streets with the minimum qualifications for handling commercial traffic. 93 Planning Division staff believes that the Comprehensive Plan promotes locating CB- 94 designated properties on the A Minor Augmenter and Reliever streets in order to 95 minimize commercial traffic on local residential streets rather than minimizing traffic on 96 localcommercial streets like Lincoln and Terrace Drives in that location. 97 6.3The question also seems to linger as to whether teaching, be it in a conventional school 98 setting or in an office setting, is an “institutional” activity to be limited to areas guided by 99 the Comprehensive Plan for Institutional land uses. Music and dance studios, martial arts 100 dojos, tutoring centers, and the like are places where teaching and learning take place, 101 and which are often located in commercial-type properties. Although Elementary 102 PF12-008_RCA_070912 Page 3 of 4