Title
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING USE REGULATIONS - PRINCIPAL USES - PERMITTED USES IN CGO ZONE for the purpose of amending the uses permitted in the Commercial, General and Office (CGO) Zone; amending the Principal Use Table for nonresidential base zones; and providing for approval of certain residential developments in the CGO Zone by special exception or planned unit development.
Background
This bill amends the principal use table to require special exception approval for certain residential developments in the Commercial, General and Office (CGO) Zone. The Zoning Ordinance currently permits five residential use types by right in the CGO Zone - townhouses, two-family dwellings, multifamily dwellings, live-work dwellings, and artists’ residential studios. This bill would require developments of each of these use types to seek special exception approval to locate in the CGO Zone. Multifamily, two-family, and townhouse dwellings that are part of a group of adjoining lots or parcels in the CGO Zone that comprise less than 20 acres would be permitted by the approval of a special exception. If these dwellings comprise 20 acres or greater in size, the development would be permitted by approval of a Planned Development Zoning Map Amendment.