File #: O-20-19    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 4/24/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/18/2019 Final action: 1/27/2020
Title: Dwellings above the ground floor of nonresidential uses in the B1, Convenience Shopping District, and B2, Community Shopping District - For the purpose of creating standards for dwellings permitted above nonresidential uses in certain commercial districts; and matters generally relating to regulation of such dwellings.
Sponsors: Ross Arnett
Indexes: Planning Commission, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-20-19 Dwellings above Non Residential B1 B2 Zones First Reader.pdf, 2. O-20-19 Staff Report and Fiscal Impact Note.pdf, 3. O-20-19 Staff Report to PC.pdf, 4. O-20-19 PC Findings and Recommendation.pdf

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Dwellings above the ground floor of nonresidential uses in the B1, Convenience Shopping District, and B2, Community Shopping District - For the purpose of creating standards for dwellings permitted above nonresidential uses in certain commercial districts; and matters generally relating to regulation of such dwellings.

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE

CITY OF ANNAPOLIS

 

Ordinance 20-19

 

Introduced by:  Alderman Arnett

 

Referred to

Planning Commission

Rules and City Government Committee

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

 

Dwellings above the ground floor of nonresidential uses in the

B1, Convenience Shopping District, and B2, Community Shopping District

 

FOR                       the purpose of creating standards for dwellings permitted above nonresidential uses in certain commercial districts; and matters generally relating to regulation of such dwellings.

 

BY                      adding the following portion to the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2019 Edition

21.64.280

 

 

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

 

 

TITLE 21 - PLANNING AND ZONING

Chapter 21.64 - Standards for Uses Subject to Standards

 

Section 21.64.280 - Reserved DWELLINGS ABOVE THE GROUND FLOOR OF NONRESIDENTIAL USES

 

                     IN THE B1 AND B2 ZONING DISTRICTS:

 

A.                     FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, GROUND FLOOR MEANS THE FLOOR OF A BUILDING AT GROUND LEVEL.

B.                     DWELLINGS ARE NOT PERMITTED ABOVE THE FOLLOWING NONRESIDENTIAL USES IN THE BI, CONVENIENCE SHOPPING DISTRICT, AND IN THE B2, COMMUNITY SHOPPING DISTRICT:

 

1.                     ABOVE GROUND PARKING LOTS;

2.                     ABOVE GROUND PARKING GARAGES;

3.                     ABOVE GROUND LOADING AND UNLOADING AREAS;

4.                     ABOVE GROUND STORM WATER MANAGEMENT FACILITIES;

5.                     EXTERIOR OPEN SPACE AREAS;

6.                     EXTERIOR PROPERTY STORAGE AREAS.

 

C.                     DWELLINGS ARE NOT PERMITTED ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF ANY BUILDING, AS MEASURED FROM THE HIGHEST ADJACENT GRADE ON ANY SIDE.

 

SECTION II:  AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this Ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.

 

 

EXPLANATION

UPPERCASE indicates matter added to existing law.

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Underlining indicates amendments.