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Definition

    LABOR HALL means any profit or non-profit public or private entity, whether a corporation, partnership, natural person, or any other legal entity, whose business involves securing temporary unskilled or agricultural employment for a client through the use of a hiring hall or facility where unskilled workers gather to await employment.

    UNSKILLED WORKER means an individual who performs labor involving physical toil that does not require persons engaged in a particular occupation, craft, or trade, or practical or familiar knowledge of the principles or processes of an art, science, craft, or trade

Districts Permitted

    By right in IR and IM districts when located at least

    • 1000 feet from all conforming residential uses; and
    • 500 feet from all "public or private school" uses
    • Otherwise, by SUP in IR and IM districts.
    • By SUP only in RR, CS, LI, central area, mixed use, and multiple commercial districts

Required Off-Street Parking

    One space per 500 square feet of floor area

Handicapped Parking

    Must be provided if more than ten off-street parking spaces are required for this use.
     

Total number of required off-street parking spaces

Minimum number of handicapped spaces required

1 - 50

1

51 - 100

2

101 - 300

3

301 - 500

5

over 500

1% of Total

Required Off-Street Loading

Square feet of floor area in structure

Total required spaces or berths

0 to 10,000

None

 10,000 to 50,000

1

50,000 to 100,000

2

Each additional 100,000 or fraction thereof

1 additional

Additional Provisions

  • This use must have a lobby or waiting room with a floor area of not less than the greater of 500 square feet or 50 percent of the total floor area of the premises
  • Food may be prepared and served as an accessory use
  • No SUP for a labor hall may be granted for more than a two-year time period. An SUP for a labor hall is not eligible for automatic renewal
  • In determining whether to grant a specific use permit for a labor hall, the city council shall consider its proximity to the main uses listed in Subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, and require that the labor hall meet, as nearly as practicable, the distance requirements set out in that subparagraph.
  • Measurements of distance under this paragraph are taken radially. "Radial" measurement means a measurement taken along the shortest distance between the nearest point of the building site of the labor hall and the nearest point of the building site of another use
  • This use must comply with all applicable licensing provisions.
     

 


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