The Code currently requires that all drive-through restaurants obtain conditional use permit approval. Staff feels this process is overkill since most fast food restaurants have drive-throughs and are already permitted uses in highway commercial zones. The only concern where a conditional use is necessary is those areas where the highway commercial zone abuts a residential district. In those instances conditional use permits are appropriate. This change removes the requirement for conditional uses for drive through restaurants unless they are located within 300 feet of a residential district.
Staff recommends approval of the request to advertise.
The intent of this ordinance is to provide a means of deterring last minute inspection cancellations and excessive re-inspections due to projects not being ready for our inspectors. The last minute cancellation of inspections and numerous re-inspections due to contractors either not being ready, or failing to comply with correction notices, is causing a backlog in our system. By canceling inspections on larger buildings, some contractors are in effect, locking out that time that could have been spent on projects that are ready for inspections. Without sufficient notice, we cannot make this lost time available to other contractors and project owners. On some of these larger jobs, an inspection may keep a single inspector busy for a half a day.