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Show 4 - DELICATE TIMES - FEBRUARY 15, 1996 COMMUNITY ISSUES B & B CONDITIONAL USE PERMITTING PROCESS 7. All outdoor lighting must be shielded. 8. Owner or manager will reside at Bed & Breakfast. Relief managers are pennitted for vacations, closed periods With the recently concluded sale of the CV Inn to new owners. the Planning Commission and Town Council will be processing the new conditional use application of the new B&B owners. With inaccurate i ormation floating around, there have been requests that 9. Containers for solid waste will be of sufficient size to hold all waste material and will be secure enough to prevent spillage by wind or animals. Waste will be taken to the nearest Grand County landfill before it becomes a some of the “objective" information be made available to nuisance or health hazard. help prevent rumors. (Example: there is a rumor that the B&B can not be sold as a business. Condition #10 listed below. specifically states that the B&B can be sold as a " 10. Sistelita Bed & Breakfast may be advertised as a conditional use/bed & breakfast and sold as such at any time. 11. No more than the nine existing rooms shall be let to the public. Vehicles appropriate to these accomodations may be parked on the property. 12. Any substantial additions such as swimming pools or tennis courts shall be submitted to Planning Commission for recommendation and to Town Council for approval. business.) There have also been requests for simple answers. The truth is that this is not a simple situation. and simple answers are apt to be misleading. The zoning ordinance under which the CV B&B Inn received a permit has been amended and normal work breaks. several times. Changes in a zoning ordinance usually do not (There were different conditions attached to the earlier apply retroactively when a business has already been granted a permit. Sistelita B&B in 1986 and 1988—these earlier conditions do CONDITIONAL USE PROCESS The existing CV Inn is a business operating under a conditional use permit issued by the Town in Nov. 1989. Conditional use permits may be obtained for a limited number of activities not directly permitted by the zoning ordinance, but possibly permitted with some restrictions or conditions specified by the Town Council. Application must be made to the Planning Commission which then makes a ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS Original CV Zoning Ordinance had no provisions for B&B’s, short term rentals or other tourist accomodation businesses. In Nov ‘89 the Zoning Ordinance was amended as part of the package deal for the transfer of the property from Joe Kingsley to Eric and Lyrm Thomson. The amendment recommendation to the Town Council. Conditional Use permits allow for a limited amount of business activity in a residential area, while (hopefully) preserving its residential character. Permits are issued conditionally upon conformance with the attached conditions. Home and Premise Occupations are the most frequently requested conditional uses. RUMOR CONTROL: To help correct some of the inaccurate rumors that have been overheard recently, the CV not apply to the CV B&B Inn.) allowed B&B’s as a conditional use. (The CV Inn conditions were approved immediately after the amendment was passed by the Town Council.) In Mar. 1991 numerous amendments were incorporated into the CV Zoning Ordinance, including a B&B size limitation of 4 guest rooms or 8 guests and a stipulation that there be only one kitchen in a B&B. (This made the CV B&B Inn a legal non-conforming use, i.e. the CV Inn could continue to operate at the size originally permitted, but no new B&B’s could be that large.) As a legal non-conforming use, the CV B&B Inn is partly regulated by Times has been asked to print the exact conditions that were the non-conforming use section of the CV Zoning approved by the Town Council in 1989 for the CV B&B Inn. The following are the actual conditions attached to the CV B&B Inn permit approved in Nov. 1989: Ordinance. Additional changes have been made to the language of CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO [CV B&B INN] CONDI— TIONAL USE PERMIT (Nov. 1989) l. Sistelita Bed & Breakfast is a business operated under language such as “Pemrits for conditional uses (including home and premise occupations) are personal to the applicant, non-transferable and do not run with the land” will probably a conditional use permit. Like most B&B operations it exists in a residential zoning area and is sensitive to mean that no new B&B’s will be guaranteed the right to sell their business as a B&B. (This was an amendment that came neighborhood needs and life styles. Sound and lighting will from a Utah League of Cities and Towns workshop for the at no time be bothersome to surrounding area residents. CV Planning Commission conducted here several years ago.) 2. Mountain bikes, cross country skiis and other nonmotorized recreational equipment may be rented on the premises to overnight guests only. 3. (Item #3 was not approved and is not a part of the permit.) 4. No outdoor noise after 10:00 pm. No outdoor speakers. 5. No meals served to “walk-ins." 6. Comply with Utah State, County and local health codes, inclrrding annual septic system inspection and written aproval by Southeast Utah Health District Sanitarian. the conditional use section of the CV Zoning Ordinance in the past few years. While not specifically directed to B&B’s, ANNUAL EASTER PARTY ON THE COMMUNITY LOT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP ORGANIZE IT |