Interested citizens with plenty to say filled the available space August 23 at the Planning Commission workshop on revisions to City Code regarding Bed & Breakfasts. Commissioners are earnestly trying to resolve contradictions and anachronisms in Code within the six-month moratorium on new B&B licenses imposed by city council. The moratorium ends Dec. 26.
There were three proposed changes commissioners were studying. Code presently states, “No request for a Conditional Use Permit shall be granted if the property line of the property upon which the use will be carried out is within two hundred (200) feet in any direction of the primary frontage streets of the property line of where an existing Conditional Use or Legal Non-Conforming Use offering the same or similar services is located.
Suggested changes to this section would eliminate the phrase “same or similar.”
Another suggested change would be to require an owner, not a manager, to live on site.
Chair Pat Lujan spoke to the public, “This is not set in stone. We’re still working on it.” He said he appreciated the input at the workshop saying, “We’re here for the people.”
Commissioners set a goal of having their work completed at the Oct. 11 meeting.
Next meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 6 p.m. It will be preceded by a workshop at 5 p.m. with consultant Jim VonTungeln of the Municipal League.