Ordinance 27590006.150.018A
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02/14/90
ORDINANCE NO. 2759
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF THE EDMONDS COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT CODE TO PROVIDE FOR SMALL ANIMAL
HOSPITALS AS A PRIMARY PERMITTED USE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS (BN) ZONE, DEFINING SMALL
ANIMAL HOSPITAL, AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF
COMMERCIAL KENNEL, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the Planning Board and City Council have held
public hearings to gather the input of the public regarding the
amendment of the provisions of the neighborhood business (BN)
zone to consider providing for small animal hospitals as primary
permitted uses, and
WHEREAS, after considering the recommendation of the
Planning Board and the public testimony, the City Council finds
that small animal hospitals, if properly controlled, provide a
service related to neighborhood residential districts, and, as
such, should be permitted in the neighborhood business zone, NOW,
THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Edmonds Community Development Code,
Section 16.45.010 USES, subparagraph A Permitted Primary Uses is
hereby amended to read as follows:
16.45.010 USES
A. Permitted Primary Uses.
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5. Small Animal Hospitals.
Section 2. The Edmonds Community Development Code,
section 21.15.060 Commercial Kennels is hereby amended to read as
follows.
21.15.060 COMMERCIAL KENNELS
Commercial Kennel means a building in which
four (4) or more domestic animals at least
four (4) months of age are kept commercially
for boarding or breeding.
Section 3. The Edmonds Community Development Code,
chapter 21.90 is hereby amended by the addition of a new section
21.90.095 Small Animal Hospital to read as follows:
21.90.095 SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL
A small animal hospital means a veterinary
facility which treats small domestic house
pets such as dogs, cats, birds, fish and/or
other small exotic animals under one hundred
(100) pounds. This definition shall not
include veterinary facilities which board or
breed domestic animals or which treat, board
or otherwise house or care for horses, sheep,
cattle, pigs or other species of animals
which typically weigh over one hundred (100)
pounds per mature individual.
Section 4. This ordinance, being an exercise of a
power specifically delegated to the City legislative body, is not
subject to referendum, and shall take effect five (5) days after
passage and publication of the ordinance or a summary thereof
consisting of the title.
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ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
C TY 6LERK, JACQUELINE G. PARRETT
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
BY (�
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: February 14, 1990
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: February 27, 1990
PUBLISHED: March 4, 1990
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 9, 1990
ORDINANCE NO. 2759
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOIAISH,
SIJM'�M RY OF
ORDINANCE -NO. 2759
of the City of
Edmmids. Wwh1nq1on
On the 27th day oFebruorv,
1990 the CRy Council of the CItV
of I'dmonds, Ras,ad Ordinance
No, 2759, A sunlmory of the
content of sold ordfnance,
Consisting of the title, provides
Am nDn NANCE OF THE CITY
A
Mr, SMALL
T04 OFDII
KENNEL, AND
WHEN THE
text of this Ordinance
led upon re4uest.
This i7th day of
1"0.
IEUNE G. PARRETT
erk
March 4, 1990.
ss.
Affidavit of Publication
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper
printed and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
Court of Snohomish County and that the notice......... ......................
-------------Summary of Ordinance No. 2759
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said
newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and
entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely:
March 4, 1990
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of said period.
,
Principal Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this......... 5 t h
dayof........... ......March ................................ 19..90.
Nv a y Pu lie i an for the State of Washington,
r i g at Everett, Snohomish County.
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