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Overview/ Analysis Staff has received a building permit application from a property owner to desiring to construct a dance studio/ gymnastics facility in the Business Park (BP) zoning district. This use is most closely classified as Commercial Recreation, defined as "a building structure, or open space designed, constructed and operated by a private enterprise for recreational purposes and open to the general public. Such facilities may include bowling alleys, tennis courts, and other leisure uses. " Commercial Recreation is permitted as a conditional use in the C-1 and C-3 zoning districts. It is allowed in the I-1 zoning district as a conditional use, provided the property is not platted. Because the use was defined and expressly anticipated fox other zoning districts within the City, it is improper to interpret into another zone. The question is: should the additional zoning districts permit this type of use as a permitted or conditional use, specifically the BP district. In researching a possible amendment, the City has four main options, including: 1. Make no amendment 2. Make Commercial Recreation a permitted use in the BP zoning district 3. Make Commercial Recreation a conditional use within the BP district 4. Classify Commercial Recreation as a retail use in the BP zoning district, allowing it as a accessory use, but constraining it to a relatively small portion of the business park, thereby in some way preserving the intent of the district. Within this option, the City could follow one of three tracts: a. 15% or a maximum of 5,000 square feet b. Retails sales incidental to the products manufactured, maximum of 10% of the floor area c. A maximum 20,000 square foot freestanding facility. The Zoning Ordinance allows, as a permitted accessory use, a limited amount of retail, recognizing that there are two different styles of retail that are beneficial to the principle warehouse business or the park in general, provided the area retains its business park character. The purpose statement of the Business Park zoning district: 1. The business park district is established to encourage a planned, integrated environment for certain industrial office and commercial uses, which are compatible with and complement each other as well as the surrounding land uses. The underlying land use designation within the district may vary and may be either light industrial or highway business. Development within the business park district will correspond with the land use designation. Industrial and office uses are allowed where the land use designation is light industrial, and commercial uses are allowed where the land use designation is highway business. 2. It is the intent of this section that development reflect common themes using compatible architectural design and consistency in signage, landscaping, and lighting. It is also the intent to encourage businesses which generate a hi~~h number of jobs per ~uare foot rather than predominantly warehouse type uses. -Sec. 30-1294. Emphasis added.