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<br />Associate Planner Daines indicated this has been changed from commercial car washes being <br />allowed as a conditional use to accessory car washes being allowed as a permitted use. This <br />would permit car washes associated with another use, which would be required to go through a <br />site plan process. <br /> <br />Commissioner VanScoy noted a permitted use states that the use is allowed, while a conditional <br />use gives the City a choice in approving the use. <br /> <br />Chairperson Nixt pointed out the City was able to work to properly locate the car wash in the <br />Coborn's site plan due to the conditional use as a qualifier. With a permitted use, if the <br />applicable setbacks are met, the City does not have the ability to force the conditional nature of <br />that use. <br /> <br />Associate Planner Daines indicated this will be changed to accessory car washes as a conditional <br />use. <br /> <br />Commissioner VanScoy requested information regarding the change in the front yard setbacks. <br /> <br />Associate Planner Daines explained this came up with the build-to lines. With the stoops on the <br />houses and businesses they need to allow for doors to open without being in the right-of-way. To <br />avoid this occurrence, a couple of feet has been allowed so that when a business door opens it is <br />not being opened into the right-of-way. <br /> <br />The Commission discussed requiring doors to be recessed, rather than changing the front yard <br />setbacks. Commissioner Van Scoy noted the build-to concept was a major component of Town <br />Center. <br /> <br />Associate Planner Daines indicated the change in the front yard setback versus the requirement <br />for a recessed door will be revisited. <br /> <br />Commissioner VanScoy requested information regarding the proposed change to allow 5 stories <br />in the TC-2 and TC-3 district, as he thought a transition from the core area was planned. <br /> <br />Associate Planner Daines explained the change would not disallow buildings of this size, but the <br />thought was not necessarily that there would be buildings of this height. The decrease in density <br />from the core area may not have been considered with this proposed change; she can understand <br />the reasoning for leaving this as 3 stories. <br /> <br />Commissioner VanScoy indicated he would be more comfortable allowing 4 stories, rather than <br />5. <br /> <br />Chairperson Nixt indicated he would prefer to deal with a 5-story building in these areas as a <br />variance if a request were to come forward. <br /> <br />Planning Commission/January 4, 2007 <br />Page 31 of35 <br />