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Show City redefines frontage limits By TOM HARALDSEN CENTER V ILLE Th e City's Planning and Zoning Ordinance has been amended by City Council, changes which redefine frontage, alter requirements for rear yards in commercial zones and add a condition condi-tion for use permits. All three changes were approved after Centerville's Planning Commission Com-mission debated the items. A definition for "frontage" was added to the ordinance which now reads 'the length of any one property prop-erty line of a lot or parcel, which property line shall abut an improved public street, but shall not include that length of any property line of a lot or parcel which abuts the end of a dead-end street or stubbed street right-of-way. Frontage is often used when describing required improvements to a lot, so this definition leaves no doubt as to what the required area is to be. Likewise, a change in the yard regulations portion of the ordinance pertaining to rear yards was approved. ap-proved. Previously, a rear yard of 10 feet was required for all uses in the commercial zone, but the new ordinance requires no rear yard, except ex-cept where that zone abuts any residential district. In that case, a rear yard of 25 will be required. This change was designed to help developers avoid unnecessary rear yard additions in areas where the commercial zone does not border a residential area. Council also voted to allow a 12th use for a conditional use permit, per-mit, adding the term "Kennels (non-commercial). In making that change, the Council was careful to explain that, according to the County Coun-ty Health Department, a kennel is defined as a home which has "more than two dogs or cats." The phrase "non-commercial" was included to carefully draw the distinction between be-tween a home owner with pets and an actual licensed kennel. |