All right.

So I'll call the March 2nd 2026 meeting of the Housing Planning and Development Committee to order.

We have three items on the agenda today.

The first is the approval of the minutes from the February 17th, 2026 Housing Planning Development Committee.

Do I hear uh uh motion?

Oh moved for approval.

Is there a second?

All in favor?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Uh next two items uh are related.

The first is communication from Assistant Director Boss regarding proposed code amendment regards to pet grooming services.

Um first I will make a motion to receive and file the communication.

Second.

Uh all those in favor?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Um the second item is ordinance 39-2025, and I will turn it over to uh Assistant Director Boss in the Planning Department to walk us through.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, members of council.

Um run through this proposed code amendment here, hopefully it won't take too long.

Uh I believe it's hopefully it's pretty straightforward.

Um this is one of we've had a handful over the last couple of years of just small conditional use recommended uh code changes.

Um we have a larger uh code refresh that's underway uh shooting to wrap that up by the end of the year.

Um this is just it's a good example of kind of a small uh item that will be get requests that have come up a couple of times that we've had to work through basic uh trying to help business stay in Lakewood.

Um and I think the pet grooming has come up two or three times in the last two years, recognize the differences that I'll walk you through in terms of what we're asking uh to amend.

Um this was uh sent up to council in November, referred to the Planning Commission.

We reviewed it with Planning Commission back in or last month in February.

Um I put the kind of the draft minutes from the February since we haven't approved those yet uh at the March meeting.

Um but um but there's basically those three areas that we'll that we're asking to change in terms of the code relating to pet grooming.

Um Schedule 112902, which is the the broader permitted uses in commercial districts, that's where you see the uh the the P for permitted, the C for conditional or a blank for not permitted at all.

Um across all uses in the commercial districts, um 1129.18 would be a new uh section for there are a couple of other preceding sections of supplemental regulations.

This would be a new section uh to add supplemental regulations specific to pet grooming itself.

And then Section 116103.

Um these are the supplemental regulations for all conditional uses.

I think there's like there's almost 30 different individual kind of uses that have uh additional regulations that go with them when they are being considered for a conditional use.

Um animal clinics uh pet grooming kind of carry the same supplemental regulations that were review here.

But what uh just to highlight there in red what came out of the planning commission review of this was that they they wanted to make sure that we either defined and or covered the difference between pet grooming and pet daycare services.

And so I will talk through that um a little bit.

I I feel like we had that discussion.

I wasn't necessarily prepared to answer that question at planning commission, but I've thought through it since then, gone back to the Ohio revised code.

I've and I feel like the amendment covers it, and so I will try to explain that as best I can.

This is how those kind of individual sections that I outlined are exist today.

Um so Schedule 112902 there at the top.

That's this is just a portion, obviously, of that whole table that that goes through all of the different uses.

Um so other under the header of other retail services, you've got three kind of pet related items.

There's animal clinics and hospitals, veterinarian offices, and then grooming services.

They're all treated the same right now.

Um so they're not allowed in C1.

In C2, they're all conditional.

And so they have to, they would have to go through planning commission to seek approval uh to have one of those in the in a C2 districted property.

In C3, they are all permitted, so you don't have to get any zoning approvals.

You can just have your pet grooming or your animal clinic in a C3 uh district uh property.

And then there's a conditional use for public school.

So when someone comes and applies to have an animal clinic, a hospital, or a grooming service in a C2 districted property, they're supposed to meet these three regulations.

And this these are under 116103.

These are the supplemental regulations for those uses.

Not all conditional uses have supplemental regulations.

Some there's they just go under 11610, I think it's 02, there are the what's called the general conditions.

And those are just they apply to all conditional uses regardless of what they are.