Title
Personal Care Establishments in the PM District - For the purpose of removing restrictions on the operation of a personal care establishment in the PM, Professional Mixed Office zoning district.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 18-17
Introduced by: Alderman Paone and Alderwoman Pindell Charles
Referred to
Planning Commission
Rules and City Government Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Personal Care Establishments in the PM District
FOR the purpose of removing restrictions on the operation of a personal care establishment in the PM, Professional Mixed Office zoning district.
BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portion of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2016 Edition:
Section 21.48.020
Section 21.48.030
WHEREAS, the PM District allows a mixture of small scale office and retail uses; and
WHEREAS, the PM district is designed to serve as a transitional zone reducing commercial/office impact on adjoining residential neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, Section 21.72.010 D states that a "personal care establishment" means an establishment providing services for the customary comfort, convenience or care of individuals. The term "personal care establishment" includes but is not limited to barbershops, beauty parlors, dressmaking/tailoring stores, drugstores, and photography studios; and
WHEREAS, personal care establishments are a low-impact use compatible with the character of neighboring residential properties; and
WHEREAS, personal care establishments in the PM District are subject to standards, as follows:
* This use may be provided only on a ground floor.
* New construction, expansion or substantial rehabilitation shall not provide commercial or retail uses greater than fifty percent of a structure's gross floor area.
* Where this use is established on lots less than five thousand four hundred square feet in size, all trash and refuse shall be stored in self-enclosed trash storage areas. Trash storage areas ...
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