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Type: MAUNOT
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County: Pulaski
Attorney/Contact: Tina Timmons

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAUMELLE, COUNTY OF PULASKI, STATE OF ARKANSAS, AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLED: ORDINANCE NO. 1103, AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MAUMELLE CITY CODE TO PROVIDE A NEW LAND USE CATEGORY OF SPECIAL USE COMMERICAL (SUC), AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, the city’s planning director requested that the city’s planning commission consider a proposal to provide a new land use category: special use commercial (SUC); and
WHEREAS, at a public hearing on December 21, 2023, the planning commission approved a motion to recommend that the city council amend the Maumelle City Code to provide this new land use category; and

WHEREAS, the planning director has informed the city council that, if the city council adopts this new land use category, he will review the city’s land use plan map to identify areas whose land use category should be changed to special use commercial (SUC), and he will propose those amendments to the planning commission and to the city council in the near future.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAUMELLE, ARKANSAS, AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Maumelle City Code is amended by adding a subsection 54-73(b)(10) to read as follows:
Sec. 54-73. – Land use plan map categories . . .
(b) The following land use categories are established: . . .
(10) Special use commercial (SUC), which provides sites for development of less conventional forms of commercial. This category includes lands intended to accommodate a variety of commercial, light industrial, and residential mixed uses located around the Village Center and Town Center to include live/work units.
Section 2. Codification. (Do not codify.) It is the intention of the city council that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Maumelle City Code.
Section 3. Repealer. (Do not codify.) All other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of the conflict.
Section 4. Severance. (Do not codify.) If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other portion of this ordinance is found to be unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative by a court of competent jurisdiction, such findings shall not affect the validity of the remainder of these sections, nor shall any proceeding invalidating any portion of any section operate to affect any portion of the remainder of said sections not specifically attacked in said proceeding. Adopted this 5th day of February 2024. DR1T 2/13/2024