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DATE: May 24, 2010
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for an amendment to Sec. 30, City of
Beaumont Zoning Ordinance to amend the paving requirements
for parking lots in an Historic District
FILE: 758-OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval.
Since the passage of the Historic District regulations, there has been a
concern over whether the paving of the rear yards for commercial
purposes was appropriate. The issue involves the notion that once the
rear yard is paved, it is likely that a residential structure used for
commercial purposes will be less attractive for future residential uses.
The current regulations require that off-street parking surface
materials be brushed or aggregate concrete, hot mix asphalt or
masonry pavers. Grass, caleche, dirt, gravel, shell, slag and clay
surfaces are not permitted.
The Planning Manager recommends that Sec. 30-21.2 of the Zoning
Ordinance be amended as follows:
(e) 7f Surface Materials. The only permitted off-street parking
surface materials are brushed or aggregate concrete, hot mix
asphalt, masonry pavers or pervious or semi-pervious parking
surface materials having a design acceptable to the
Transportation Engineer and the Planning Manager, or his or
her designees, capable of accommodating vehicles up to five
thousand (5,000) pounds of gross vehicle weight and
maintained free of weed, dust, trash and debris. Examples of
such pervious or semi-pervious materials include interlocking
grass paving blocks, porous asphalt or grasscrete. Grass,
caleche, dirt, gravel, shell, slag and clay surfaces are not
permitted.