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Fr- I ,JUL 2 b 1989 Boor PROPOSED: 2. All vehicular display areas and off-street parking areas shall have paved surfaces which meet the standards of Section 24 (f) (1) or (2). For the purpose of this ordinance, vehicular display areas shall be paved areas where vehicles for sale are on display. Off-street parking areas shall be paved areas maintained for customer and employee parking._ EXISTING: 3. No vehicular sales area or structure shall be located closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any property line. PROPOSED: 3. No vehicular sales office (building) shall be located closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any property line except any property line that is abutting a railroad right-of-way in which case the structure shall not be located closer than ten (10) feet. Also, no vehicular display areas shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to any property EXISTING: 4. The site shall provide for separation of vehicular sales areas and off-street parking areas. PROPOSED: 4. The site shall provide for separation of vehicular display areas and off-street parking areas. EXISTING: 5. All designated sales'areas shall provide for a minimum of three hundred (300) square feet per vehicle. Drives and maneuvering areas shall be designed to permit convenient on-site maneuvering of the vehicles. PROPOSED: 5. All designated vehicular display areas* shall provide for a minimum of three hundred (300) square feet per vehicle. Drives and maneuvering areas shall be designed to permit convenient on-site maneuvering of the vehicles. *(Paved areas where vehicles are displayed.) The major substantive changes occur in the proposed #3 criterion. The intent of the existing #3 criterion was to buffer the used car dealership from uses on adjacent properties and road rights-of-way, but not as a setback from the :..railroad right-of-way. The staff feels there would be no problem with allowing a car sales office to be constructed within 10' of the railroad right-of-way. In the CH (Heavy Commercial) and IL (Light Industrial) districts there is no setback along the FEC railroad right-of-way. The other substantive change would allow vehicular display areas to come within 10' of any property line. It could be interpreted from the existing criterion that no paving could be located within 25' of any property line. The proposed change is less restrictive than the "blanket" existing 25' setback criterion but is also slightly more restrictive than the criteria for standard commer- cial or residential parking lot designs. All parking lots are required to have a 10 foot landscape strip between a right-of-way and the parking lot, and a 4' landscape strip between a parking lot and an adjoining property line. This revised criterion would create a 10' landscape strip for display areas abutting a property line. The staff feels the 10' setback from any property line to a display area is an adequate separation distance. 16 - W M