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CARMEL/CLAY PLAN COMMISSION
DEPARTMENT REPORT
October 21, 2003
Si. Docket No. 39-02 OA, 40-02 OA
Amendments to the Carmel/Clay Zoning Ordinance-
Use Table Adoption & Definitions Amendment (Text Amendments)
The petitioner seeks to make amendments to the structure of the Ordinance relating to
uses, add definitions and group all definitions into Chapter three ofthe Ordinance.
Filed by the Department of Community Services.
The Department is asking that the Plan Commission recertify the following items to the City
Council. These items were certified to the Council at the July 16th Plan Commission meeting.
However, due to the complexity of placing the information into Ordinance amendment format
the Department has not yet been able to get them in front ofthe"Council None of the content of
the amendments has changed.
The Department recommends that the full Plan Commission recertify both 39-02 OA and
40-02 OA to the City Council with favorable recommendations.
Background:
This proposed amendment \vas introduced last sunnner. Due to increased workloads the
Department was not able to make the final corrections/modifications for the committee to review.
Once forwarded by the committee the Department will put the proposal in ordinance fonnat for
presentation to the City Council for final action.
The proposed table would relocate and replace the use information contained within the entire
ordinance. This wi 11 make the process of identifying uses permitted within the different zones
much more efficient. In addition it will allow the Plan Conunission and Department to conduct
further review and revision to the table to assure the appropriate uses are permitted within each
zone. At this point we have identified all uses, grouped redundant uses into fewer categories, and
ensured that there are clear definitions for each and every use category. Few changes have been
made to the uses permitted under the current ordinance other than housekeeping related to
grouping of uses and the establishment of new definitions. In ,addition to providing definitions
for each use, we propose to move all definitions within the ordinance to the Definitions Chapter.
PCR-2003-1021