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By: Mayor Jones AN ORDINANCE PLANK/NG AND ORDINANCES OF "OFF/CES AND SUBSECTION (G) USES. CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2024 - 51 AMENDING SECTION 1118.13 OF THE ZONING CODE OF THE CODIFIED THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ENTITLED, SERVICES" IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH TO LIMIT THE LOCATION OF SPECIFIED WHEREAS, upon review, the Director of Economic and Community Development recommends this Council consider amendments to Section 1118.13 in order to condition and limit the establishment of specified uses, to wit Thrift Stores, not closer than 3,000 feet from existing similar uses, to prohibit outdoor storage and donation box display, and to limit shopping center to maximum of 25% Thrift Store non -anchor tenants; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted is evaluating, by and through its 2025 Comprehensive Master Plan, expected to be introduced for review in July, 2024, and expects to establish, as Goal 2 "Advancing Prosperity" that the City's zoning code should "Create a Business Mix Matrix" by the establishment of a "more diverse and desirable mix" by the restriction of saturated retail uses; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted shall review, by and through its 2025 Comprehensive Master Plan, expected to be introduced for review in July 2024, in Chapter 2, "Evaluation of Current Conditions" the identification of Used Merchandise Stores among 2017 Industry Groups, and which found substantial excess of same in the Leakage/Surplus Analysis and Market Demand Analysis, and which support changes in the City's zoning code to restrict and limit such retail uses, which have continued to proliferate since 2017; and WHEREAS, following publication of newspaper notice in conformance with the provisions of Section 14 of Article W of the Charter and Section 1127.03 of the Zoning Code, a public hearing was held on the 25th of June, 2024; and WHEREAS, after careful consideration, the Planning and Design Commission of the City, on the 26th day of June, 2024, by formal motion, recommended that this Ordinance amending Section 1118.13 of the Zoning Code, presently entitled "Offices and Services" be (approved) (disapproved); and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council to amend Planning and Zoning Code Section 1118.13, as recommended by the Planning and Design Commission, in order to establish Subsection (G) to add Thrift Store limitations to the Zoning Code as set forth in the Ordinance.