Use History

Prior to 2006 Community Facility Uses were listed in Use Group 7-Community Facilities Uses (1966 Code) and were allowed in all industrial zoning districts. This use group allowed the traditional community and institutional type facilities as well as some commercial-oriented uses. This use group did not specifically list or define a “Detention” facility or “Jail”. These would have been considered “Similar Uses” within the Community Facilities Use Group.

Use Group 7 Community Facilities Uses (Complete list)

USE GROUP 7.  COMMUNITY FACILITIES - PUBLIC UTILITIES  (a) may appropriately be located in residential areas to provide education, recreation, health, and other essential services and, (b) do not create significant objectionable influences in residential areas.

1.   Community Facilities

Adaptive reuse of properties listed as a landmark on the Lawrence, State or National Registers of   Historic Places or included in the Lawrence or National Register of Historic Districts

Art gallery or museum

Cemetery, columbarium, or mausoleum

Child care center

Child care home - occupant primary provider

Child care home - non-occupant primary provider

Church or other place of worship, including student center

Club or lodge, private, except those whose chief activity is carried on as a business

Communication Towers

Community building, public

Golf course, but not including commercially operated driving range, pitch and putt course or miniature golf course

Halfway house or service-oriented rehabilitation center or residence

Health center, government operated

Hospital, general, not including animal

Institution for children and aged, nonprofit

Library or museum: public or private, open to public without charge

Monastery, convent or similar institution of religious training

Mortuary, funeral parlor, or undertaking establishment

Nursing home or rest home

Parish house, nunnery, rectory, etc.

Park, playground, or playfield, public

Private recreation facility (exclusive of family swimming pools and swimming pools that are accessory uses to hotels, motels and apartments)

Rehabilitation center for persons with disabilities

Sanitarium

School, public, parochial, or private, non-profit:

   (a)  Grades nine and below including kindergarten

(b)  Grades ten and above

Studio for professional work or for teaching of any form of fine arts e.g. photography, music, dancing, drama, etc.

Swimming pool, accessory

Theatre, live (if indoors)

2.  Public Utilities

Electrical substation

Gas regulator station

Radio or television transmitter or tower

Sewage disposal plant, private

Telephone exchange, but not including garage, shop,  or service

Water filtration plant, pumping station, elevated storage or reservoir

3.  Similar Uses

All other uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses and (2) are not included in any other use group.

4.  Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6359; Ord. 6382; Ord. 648)

As discussed in recent staff reports much of the existing IG zoning was established when the Development Code was adopted in 2006. Land uses and use categories were reorganized with the adoption of the 2006 Development Code.

With the adoption of the Development Code properties owned by the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and USD 497 were identified, mapped, and rezoned as GPI to better distinguish public properties from other non-residential uses.  A full assessment of the specific uses was not conducted at that time. It is for this reason that the two existing detention facilities are non-conforming uses in the GPI district. A future text amendment is needed to revise Section 20-403 to include “Detention” as a permitted use in the GPI district.

Existing Detention Facilities
Zoning prior to 2006	Current Zoning
M-2 designed to accommodate a wide range of manufacturing, wholesaling, warehousing, and other industrial activities of a medium intensity.	GPI The GPI Distinct is a Special Purpose Base District primarily intended to accommodate institutional Uses occupying significant land areas but not appropriate for development in the H District or on property designated on the Official zoning map as U. The District regulations are designated to offer the institutional maximum flexibility for patterns of uses within the District while ensuring that uses and development patterns along the edges of the District are compatible within adjoin land uses.
PID-2 Planning The Planned Industrial Development Districts (PID-1 and PID-2) are intended to encourage industrial development in a planned manner consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan of the City and Compatible with nearby residential or comemrcial areas.	GPI The GPI Distinct is a Special Purpose Base District primarily intended to accommodate institutional Uses occupying significant land areas but not appropriate for development in the H District or on property designated on the Official zoning map as U. The District regulations are designated to offer the institutional maximum flexibility for patterns of uses within the District while ensuring that uses and development patterns along the edges of the District are compatible within adjoin land uses.