IDO 2025 Update - Council Amendments - Bodega - Rogers

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This amendment from Councilor Nichole Rogers proposes changes to these IDO Subsections:

14-16-4-3(B)(7) Dwelling, Live-work
14-16-4-3(D)(37) General Retail
14-16-4-3(D)(38) Grocery Store
Table 4-2-1 Allowable Uses

Review a comparison of Proposed Bodega / Tienditas Amendments

These amendments will be reviewed by the EPC at a hearing on October 28, 2025.

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Jane Oct 8 2025 at 6:07PM on page 2

In addition to deliveries and waste handling that Patty cited, the current IDO would consider these "allowed" uses and permit a freestanding sign, 6' tall and 24 sq. feet in area in a residential neighborhood. At a minimum, a use specific standard should prohibit all freestanding signs. Conditional use review and decision criteria should require any signage to comply with Table 5-12-2 standards for R-1 zoning.

Jane Oct 8 2025 at 6:00PM on page 2

While a size limit of 3,000 sq ft is more reasonable than 5,000 sq ft, building footprint is not the only use specific standard that is relevant. Merely adding a use to 4-2-1 and specifying the geography it is allowed to occupy will not prevent significant adverse impacts on the surrounding area or mitigate material adverse effects that will follow including a commercial use in a residential area. At a minimum, any fundamentally different use from the underlying zoning category should only be a conditional use. Otherwise, this effectively changes R-1 to mixed-use.

Patricia Oct 1 2025 at 12:39PM on page 4

The logistics of running a profitable general retail or grocery store out of a live-work situation is magical thinking! While there are many examples of 'corner stores' in years past--there was a store and a laundromat off the NW corner of Bandelier Elementary School--expecting that modality to work now is unrealistic.

Jane Sep 30 2025 at 6:36PM on page 4

What is a paired use?

Patricia Sep 22 2025 at 1:23PM on page 2

General retail, grocery stores and restaurants typically require deliveries and big trash dumpsters. How does this fit into an R-1 neighborhoood?

Patricia Sep 22 2025 at 9:59AM on page 2

So a small general retail use would be permitted to be zero-lot line and cover the entire site?

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IDO 2025 Update - Council Amendments - Bodega - Rogers

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