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To declare a public necessity to amend ch. 30 of the City Code and to initiate an amendment to the City's zoning ordinance to make such lawful changes as may be necessary to exclude convenience stores from the permitted use of grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores in all zoning districts where that use is permitted and to provide instead that convenience stores be regulated through either a neighborhood-based convenience store overlay district applied to such areas of the city as the Director of Planning and Development Review may deem appropriate to recommend or the conditional use permit process by requesting that the Chief Administrative Officer cause to be conducted a study thereof.
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WHEREAS, section 15.2-2286 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, provides that a zoning ordinance may include, among other things, reasonable regulations and provisions for the amendment of regulations or district maps from time to time; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with section 15.2-2286 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, such amendment may be initiated by resolution of the governing body, provided that any such resolution by the governing body proposing an amendment to the regulations or district maps shall state the public purposes therefor; and
WHEREAS, convenience stores are included along with grocery stores and specialty food and beverage stores as a permitted use in the UB, UB-2, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6, B-7, and TOD-1 zoning districts and as uses permitted under certain circumstances or conditions in the R-8 and R-63 zoning districts; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Richmond believes that the City's zoning ordinance, codified as Chapter 30 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, should be amended to exclude convenience stores from the permitted use of grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores in all zoning districts where th...
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