[Vision2020] Schools in non-residential zones, a code revision

[Kit Craine]

FYI

On Monday, June 13 at 3:00 pm the City Council’s Administrative 
Committee is scheduled to review a draft ordinance which will allow 
schools as conditional uses in commercial zoning districts. As of 2:15 
pm on Saturday, June 11, the council packet was not on-line so further 
information is not available.

Kit Craine

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Agenda
City Of Moscow
Administrative Committee

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005 AT 3:00  P.M.

City Hall Council Chambers
206  East 3Rd Street, Second Floor


The Community Development Department has recently been responding to a 
series of formal complaints regarding schools in commercial zones.  The 
complaints have generally been challenging the legality of various 
schools in various locations and commercial zoning districts.  To date, 
the Zoning Administrator determination on one such complaint has been 
appealed to the Board of Adjustment whose determination was then 
appealed to the City Council.  Another complaint resulted in a Zoning 
Administrator determination that a school is not allowed in its current 
location.  As a result of these complaints, staff is forwarding a 
preliminary draft ordinance for consideration.  The preliminary draft 
ordinance contemplates allowing schools, commercial schools, and 
educational institutions by Conditional Use Permit in all commercial 
zoning districts except the RTO Zoning District (not allowed, at all) 
and allowing commercial schools by Conditional Use Permit in the 
Industrial Zoning District.  It also includes language describing 
places of worship and religious practice consistent between zoning 
districts, without changing how such facilities are allowed, and 
relatively minor changes to the definition of the term “institution, 
educational.”

ACTION:  Review draft Ordinance and recommend that Council direct 
Planning and Zoning Commission and staff as deemed appropriate.