HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-2608 REZONE PROPERTY AT 25 NORTH FRONT STREET. 6 0
ORDINANCE NO. r' 9 0 `'
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AN ORDINANCE accepting the recommendation of the Planning
Commission and rezoning property at 25 North
Front Street in the City of Yakima, Washington,
from B-3, General Business Zone to a Planned
Development Zone, and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, pursuant to due and legal notice, the City
Council of the City of Yakima held a hearing on the 23rd day
of March, 1982, on the recommendation of the Planning
Commission that real property situate at 25 North Front Street
in the City of Yakima, Washington, the legal description of
• which is set out hereinbelow, be rezoned from B-3, General
Business Zone to Planned Development Zone, and
WHEREAS, as a result of its hearing, the City Council
determined that the rezone should be granted, and hereby makes
its following findings and conclusions:
FINDINGS:
1. The property for which the rezone is sought is
located at 25 North Front Street in the City of Yakima,
Washington, on which property is situate a building
with historical significance as an "Opera House" and
later as a brewery. •In more recent years, the premises
has been used for a moving and storage business.
2. The owners seek a rezone from the current B-3, General
Business Zone, to a Planned Development Zone in order to
operate a brewery and tavern business with options •for
a storage facility, a restaurant, specialty shops and
offices, all as proposed by the applicant's Plan And
Program for development and use of that property.
3. Property surrounding the subject premises is zoned
411 B-3, General Business Zone. No objections to the requested
rezone were made by owners of property in the vicinity,
or by anyone else, at either the Planning Commission or
410 City Council hearing on the rezone application.
4. The Plan And Program for the development and use of
the premises maintains the historical value and design of
the building and provides for adequate parking for the
brewery and tavern business, and also provides adequate
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parking in the event the premises are developed for any
of the optional uses mentioned above.
5. The Planning Commission recommended to the City Council
that the request be granted for a Planned Development
Zone.
6. The City Council finds that the developer must comply
with unusual and time consuming licensing and permit pro-
cedures in order to develop a brewery and tavern business,
and further finds that a new sewer line must be installed
in order to accommodate the installation of brewery facil-
ities, all so as to constitute an emergency which the
City Council hereby finds and declares to exist in order
that this rezone ordinance may become immediately effective.
CONCLUSION:
1. The brewery and tavern, as well as the four development
options, are in keeping with desirable development for the
site and the area.
2. The recommendation of the Planning Commission to grant
the rezone should be affirmed and the rezone should be
granted.
3. The rezone should be immediately effective. 410
now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. The recommendation of the Planning Commission
of the City of Yakima that the following described real property
situate at 25 North Front Street in the City of Yakima, Washing-
ton, and more particularly described as follows, to wit:
The Southern 20 feet of Lot 26 and all of Lots 27 and
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28 of Block 10, Original Townsite of City of Yakima,
as recorded in Volume "E" of Plats, Page 1, records of
Yakima County, Washington.
be rezoned from B-3, General Business Zone to Planned Development
Zone be, and the same is hereby, approved and said real property 411
is hereby rezoned to a Planned Development Zone, all in accordance
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with, and to conform to, the final development plan and program
therefor approved by the Yakima Planning Commission, a copy of
which is attached hereto and by reference made a part hereof.
Section 2. The above change in zoning shall be included
and depicted on the next regularly amended Use District Map
• prepared by and for the City.
Section 3. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed
to file with the Yakima County Auditor a certified copy of this
ordinance.
Section 4. This ordinance is one to provide for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health,
11/ safety and welfare of the people of the City of Yakima and an
emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall
be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval
and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this .
day of (71dA(L) , 1982.
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ClIel'‘f% -Ci2)jr;APj"4
Mayor
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