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Resolution on Zoning Case No. 3731 relating to a text amendment to provide for and regulate Public Safety Training Facilities. Your Department of Planning, Building and Development has recommended that such amendments be adopted; your Zoning Board of Appeals has unanimously recommended that the amendments attached as Exhibit A be adopted; and your Planning, Building and Zoning Committee has recommended by a vote of 6 to 0 that the amendments attached as Exhibit A be adopted.
Staff Summary
· This is an application to amend the text of the UDO to provide for and regulate Public Safety Training Facilities.
· The proposed amendment allows such facilities only with a non-delegated Conditional Use Permit in the Agricultural, Limited and Intensive Industrial and Open Space zoning districts. A minimum area of 40 acres is also required.
· This amendment is necessary to allow the development of the “Lake County Advance Response Training Academy” on the Sheriff’s shooting range property that was leased to the applicant by the County.
· The Zoning Board of Appeals, Regional Planning Commission and Planning Department staff all recommend adoption. Action on the text amendment is necessary before the discussion of the proposed CUP for the Great Lakes Disaster Training Facility.
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WHEREAS, an application to amend the text of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) has been received from Great Lakes Disaster Training Facility, Inc. and the County of Lake, and
WHEREAS, the UDO does not currently provide for such a facility, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was conducted by the Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals on said application, and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals has unanimously recommended the text amendments attached hereto as Exhibit A be adopted, and
WHEREAS, your Planning, Building and Zoning Committee has reviewed the recommendation of the Zoning Board of Appeals and recommends by a vote of ____ to ____ the text amendmen...
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