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• • <br />Memo <br />1b: Zoning Board of Ac~jastment <br />~: Doug KneuPper, Plannioog Directo <br />CC: John Joerns, Assistant City Manager <br />Dante: 06/259 <br />rte: Nonconforming Structures and Uses <br />Previous terms and conditions of the Zoning Ordinance prohibited changes or <br />mod cations to pre-existing, legal, nonconforming uses and/or structures. In June of <br />1996, City Council charged the Planning and Zoning Commission with developing a <br />strategy for dealing with nonconforming uses and structures that would also maintain <br />neighborhood protection. <br />In November of 1996, the Planning and Zoning Commission forwarded <br />recommendations on nonconforming uses and structures to City Council. After <br />several workshops and much discussion, amendments to the zoning ordinance were <br />adopted by City Council in February of 1998. <br />In November of 1998, the City hired planning consultants to assist staff with <br />developing written policies and procedures for implementation of the recerrtly <br />mod~ed section of the zoning ordinance regulating nonconforming structures and <br />uses. During your workshop meeting scheduled for July 1~, Parke Patterson with the <br />consulting. firm, along with staff and the Assistant City Attorney, will be making <br />presentations regarding the Board's roles and responsibilities and staffs roles and <br />responsibilities in implementing the nonconforming uses and structures section of the <br />ordinance. <br />Enclosed, you will find a copy of Chapter 106 of the City's Code of Ordinances, which <br />is more commonly referred to as the zoning ordinance. Division 9 was amended and <br />now provides the regulations for nonconforming uses and structures. Also enclosed <br />~ifo <br />• page 1 <br />