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community as outlined in the Sustainability Action Plan and Resolution 25, Series 2019, "A Resolution Setting Clean Energy and Carbon Reduction Goals". NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Louisville Municipal Code Chapter 17.16 — General Regulations is hereby amended with the addition of a new Section 17.16.340 to read as follows: Section 17.16.340. — Limitation on New Gasoline and Automobile Service Stations A. The number of gasoline or automobile service stations within the city shall be limited to six (6). Such limitation shall include the combined number of existing gasoline and automobile service stations and those not constructed but approved through a planned unit development land use application that has not expired pursuant to Subsections B or C. This limitation may be increased up to seven (7) gasoline and automobile service stations if approved through a new land use application for a single -user retail center of eighty thousand (80,000) or more square feet that includes a gasoline or automobile service station as an accessory part of the retail center on the same or adjoining parcel. B. An approved planned unit development, and when applicable, an approved special review use, for a gasoline or automobile service station shall expire and become void if a building permit is not issued within thirty six (36) months after city council approval of the plan. C. If an existing gasoline or service station is discontinued from use for a period of twelve (12) months then further use of the property as a gasoline or automobile service station shall require authorization through a planned unit development, and when applicable, a special review use approval, meeting current city standards for such use. D. If at the time of a land use application for a gasoline service station there are fewer than six (6) gasoline service stations operating or approved in the city, the city shall review new applications in the order in which complete land use applications are received. E. Any new gasoline or automobile service station shall be spaced from any existing or approved gasoline or automobile service station by a minimum of one thousand (1,000) ft. as measured from the nearest point of each property boundary. This requirement may be waived if the proposed gasoline or automobile service station is approved through a new land use application for a single -use retail center of eighty thousand (80,000) or more square feet that includes a gasoline or automobile service station as an integral part of the retail center on the same or adjoining parcel. F. Any new gasoline or automobile service station, or an expansion or modification to a gasoline or automobile station, shall require the installation of level three direct current (DC) or better electric vehicle charging stations. The minimum number of level three DC Ordinance No.1851, Series 2023 Page 2of4