Title
OA# 23-001 - Public hearing to consider proposed revisions to the Permitted Use Table in Section 155.054(B) and to the Special Conditions in Section 155.099(B)(40) related to Donation Boxes.
Description/History
In recognition of donation boxes that are not appropriately located and maintained having an adverse impact on the visual quality and aesthetic value of disparate properties within Mansfield, the City Council adopted amended provisions for the same on May 9, 2022.
The additional amendments, as presented, intend to require the City Council approval of a Specific Use Permit for donation boxes in the following zoning districts:
- OP, Office Park District.
- C-1, Neighborhood Business District.
- C-2, Community Business District.
- C-3, Commercial-Manufacturing District.
- I-1, Light Industrial District.
Donation boxes are permitted as a matter of right in the I-2, Heavy Industrial District.
The additional additional amendments, as presented, intend to permit donation boxes as an accessory use to a place of worship, a nonprofit organization, and a school, provided that the operator of the donation box provide evidence of written consent from the property owner in the following zoning districts:
- 2F, Two Family Residential District.
- MF-1, Multi-family Residential District.
- MF-2, Multi-family Residential District.
- OP, Office Park District.
- C-1, Neighborhood Business District.
- C-2, Community Business District.
- C-3, Commercial-Manufacturing District.
- I-1, Light Industrial District.
- I-2, Heavy Industrial District.
Other additional amendments include the following:
- Reducing the distance requirements between two (2) donation boxes from 500 feet to 250 feet.
- Reducing the distance requirement between a donation box and any residential use or hospital, daycare, school, or college from 500 feet to 250 feet.
- Restricting the ability to locate any donation box on any paved surface or within any parking space, aisle, or loading dock and ...
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