01. Ordinance 1384 - Text Amendment - Height Limit in B-2 - 2nd ReadingCity of Kalispell
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REPORT TO:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: Ordinance 1384 - Kalispell Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment - Increase
in Height Limitation in B-2, General Business and B-3, Community Business
Districts - 2nd Reading
MEETING DATE: July 2, 2001
BACKGROUND: Jackola Engineering requested an amendment to the Kalispell Zoning
Ordinance to increase the maximum height limit in the B-2, General Business, zoning district firm
35 feet to 50 feet. The Kalispell City -County Planning Board, on June 12th, voted five in favor and
three opposed to recommend a change in the maximum height limit in the B-2, General Business,
and the B-3, Community Business, zoning district from 35 feet to 40 feet. The three members who
voted in opposition favored the 50 foot height limit.
At the last meeting, Council discussed whether to vote in favor of the 40 feet or change the
height limit to 50 feet or more. It was decided to approve the 40 foot limit in order to allow Jackola
Engineering to begin work immediately and to bring the height limits back to the floor at a future
date. The Planning and Zoning offices are working collectively on a height limit recommendation
for all of the zoning districts and should have the issue back before the Council within 60 days.
RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve Ordinance 1384 on second reading.
FISCAL EFFECTS: None.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by Council.
Respectively submitted,
Chris A. Kukulski
City Manager
Report compiled June 27, 2001
ORDINANCE NO. 1354
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27.14.040(4) OF THE KALISPELL ZONING
ORDINANCE, (ORDINANCE NO. 1175), BY AMENDING THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT
LIMIT TO 40 FEET IN THE B-2, GENERAL BUSINESS AND B-3, COMMUNITY
BUSINESS DISTRICTS AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Jackola Engineering has submitted a written request to
amend Section 27.14.040(4) of the Kalispell Zoning
Ordinance, by amending the B-2, General Business District
maximum height limit to 50 feet, and
WHEREAS, the request was forwarded to the Kalispell City -County
Planning Board and Zoning Commission by the Flathead
Regional Development Office after having been evaluated
under 27.14.030, Kalispell Zoning Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, the Kalispell City -County Planning Board and Zoning
Commission recommended that the text of the Kalispell
Zoning Ordinance be amended to allow a maximum height of
40 feet in the B-2, General Business and B-3, Community
Business Districts, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the FRDO Report and the
transmittal from the Kalispell City -County Planning Board
and Zoning Commission and hereby adopts the findings made
in Report #KZTA-01-4 as the Findings of Fact applicable
to this Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KALISPELL AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The City of
Ordinance No
follows:
Kalispell Zoning Ordinance,
1175, is hereby amended as
Section 27.14.040(4): Property Development Standards
(4). Maximum Building Height (FT): 3-5 40
Section 27.15.040(4): Property Development Standards
(4). Maximum Building Height (FT): 3-5 40
SECTION II. All parts and portions of Ordinance No. 1175
not amended hereby remain unchanged.
SECTION III. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30)
days after its final passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF
THE CITY OF KALISPELL THIS 2ND DAY OF JULY, 2001.
Wm E. Boharski
Mayor
ATTEST:
Theresa White
City Clerk