Ordinance Amendment 

    OA04: 2003-2004

Amendments related to LC-1 District

Sponsored by Supervisors Anderson and Hitzemann

 Synopsis:

                 Changes the ordinance language pertaining to the LC-1 district to allow more than one contracting business to be located on an LC-1 zoning parcel.  Whatever number of businesses are located on the single parcel, they must have no more than 12 pieces of contracting equipment unless the conditional use permit proposed by OA3 is granted.

 Argument For:

                 Allowing LC-1 businesses to share a parcel with other businesses will facilitate economic development by allowing family-based businesses to share overhead with other contractors.  As is the case with OA3, this ordinance is designed to accommodate concerns of a property owner in the Town of Pleasant Springs.

 Argument Against:

                 The same reasons which warranted opposition to OA3 also apply to OA4.  LC-1 zoning is meant to be a highly limited accommodation of a need for family-type commercial operations in the country.  The proposals involved, which would allow having more than one business on an LC-1 parcel, would greatly broaden the usefulness and the scope of the LC-1 zone, to the point where it would become, essentially, commercial zoning.  The DCTA believes that property owners which wish to undertake commercial use of parcels should seek to rezone their property commercial and go through the re-zoning process. 

DCTA Recommendation:

                 The DCTA recommends that towns veto OA4 when the same is referred to you for action.