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M E M O R A N D U M       06-43

 

TO:                  MAYOR HORNADAY AND HOMER CITY COUNCIL

                        WALT WREDE, CITY MANAGER

 

FROM:            HOMER ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION

 

BY:                  BETH MCKIBBEN, CITY PLANNER

 

DATE:             March 4, 2006

 

SUBJECT:       Ordinance 06-12, Of the City Council of the City of Homer, Alaska Amending Homer City Code 21.48, Central Business District (CBD) by Deleting Some Allowed Uses.

 

At the regular meeting held on March 1, 2006 the Homer Advisory Planning Commission received the above referenced Ordinance.  The Commission discussed this item and considered scheduling a public hearing. 


The Commission recalled that at the joint work session of the City Council and the Commission there was a general agreement made that there would not be any amendments to Title 21, except the technical rewrite that has been funded, the development of a Gateway district or Overlay, and the amendments that were already in process.   This proposed ordinance is contrary to that agreement.

 

While the Commission is not opposed to considering the concept of expanding the CBD and amending it to better fit with the ideas of a “gateway” into town, the timing is awkward.  It possible this may be an outcome of the work initiated by the resolution that has directed staff to begin work to develop an ordinance addressing the Gateway district. 

 

City code requires staff to schedule a public hearing. A hearing before the Planning Commission has been scheduled for April 5th, 2006.