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Consider adopting an urgency ordinance suspending the approval of certain categories of administrative permits such as small event centers and hosted short term vacation rentals proposed on private roads and instead requiring conditional use permits for uses in those categories within the unincorporated territory of the County of Solano (4/5 vote required)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Resource Management recommends that the Board:
1. Read the proposed ordinance by title only and waive further reading by majority vote; and:
2. Adopt an urgency ordinance suspending the approval of certain categories of administrative permits such as small event centers and hosted short term vacation rentals proposed on private roads and instead requiring conditional use permits for uses in those categories within the unincorporated territory of the County of Solano. (4/5 vote required) Said Ordinance would be in effect for 45 days with possible further extensions up to two years total.
SUMMARY:
Per the existing Zoning Regulations, the approval of certain land uses is handled by the issuance of an administrative permit provided the application is consistent with applicable standards and requirements for that use. This includes uses that might be dependent on use of a private road to provide primary access. Such a proposal may be acceptable if other users of the private road find use of the private road acceptable. Where it becomes problematic are situations where other neighbors also using the private road find a proposed use unacceptable due to impacts the use would have on the road or where maintenance responsibilities are not adequately defined and the proposed use would disproportionately impact all users with shared maintenance responsibilities. In response to these type of situations of which staff has been addressing recently, an...
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