Council reviews fitness-uses zoning changes; staff to finalize language on frontage and nuisances

Council reviewed proposed revisions to the fitness-uses ordinance that would regulate studios by building type and frontage instead of by building height. Council member (S6) and staff (S3) discussed two drafting options for how to treat properties that front Station Circle versus Haverford Avenue and whether to use 'primary frontage' language or simply any frontage on Haverford; the group favored text that treats buildings with any Haverford Avenue frontage as subject to the Haverford performance standards.

Members also asked planning staff to clarify facade-width measurements (the width of the front building facade) and agreed that nuisance performance standards should be removed from the zoning text and enforced via the nuisances chapter where code enforcement mechanisms are more appropriate. Staff will finalize the draft ordinance and return it for authorization to advertise at the October business meeting.