Ordinance 17-35

This ordinance amends Title 20 (the Unified Development Ordinance) of the Bloomington Municipal Code. The ordinance modifies Section 20.02.300, Commercial General (CG) by adding Sexually Oriented Businesses as a permitted use. The ordinance also modifies the locations from which Sexually Oriented Businesses must be sited a minimum of 500 feet by removing large scale multi-tenant nonresidential centers and cemeteries from the list and by breaking out the residential components into “Single Family district” and “Multi-Family district.” The ordinance also makes clear that Sexually Oriented Businesses are permitted in Planned Unit Developments created before the 2007 effective date of the UDO where the underlying zoning district is CA, CG, or IG. Lastly, by the ordinance changes existing code by modifying the way that distance is measured such that the 500-foot distance requirement is measured from the line of the property of the protected use to the wall of the Sexually Oriented Business. Note: At the November 1, 2017 Regular Session, the Council adopted Am 01, which amended Section 2 of this ordinance to add homeless shelters to the list of uses or districts which must be located at least 500 feet from a sexually oriented business. Also, as an amendment to the text of the Unified Development Ordinance (Title 20), the effective date of the ordinance is governed by IC 36-7-4-607 and IC 36-7-4-609.