Langley Metropolis 400-metre buffer between spas, magnificence parlours, and manicure companies

Langley Metropolis goes to public listening to with its transfer to restrict the place spas, magnificence parlours, reflexology centres, and therapeutic massage companies can find.

The Metropolis is rewriting its bylaw to require at the least 400 metres between such companies and the difficulty goes to public listening to at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 17.

“That is primarily in response to a request from the DLBA,” mentioned Carl Johannsen, Metropolis director of Growth Providers.

The proposed bylaw change consists of new and up to date business use definitions and buffer distances.

“The intent of this replace is to proceed to keep up the number of speciality retail, eating places and private providers within the downtown and likewise preserve the pedestrian-oriented streetscapes that the downtown is understood for,” Johannsen mentioned.

In February, the Downtown Langley Enterprise Affiliation requested the Metropolis for limits.

“We’re making this request merely as a result of excessive focus of those companies in our neighborhood, and we need to make it clear that we aren’t against those which might be really working as spas,” DLBA chair Carole Ward wrote in a letter to the Metropolis. “As chances are you’ll already remember, to the perfect of our data there are presently properly over 50 spas (together with hair elimination/waxing, nail salons and therapeutic massage parlours/spas) throughout the BIA, and most of these companies are actually back-filling most of our vacant areas.”

The DLBA reiterated the identical considerations and similar request in a letter to the Metropolis in April.

The Metropolis bylaw had”beforehand been amended to use 400m separation distances between sure business makes use of, reminiscent of thrift shops, cheque cashing, vape shops and tattoo parlours to keep up a wide range of business companies within the historic downtown,” she wrote in April.

Ward famous that the bounds on these different sorts of companies have “prevented the over-concentration of particular makes use of, which we really feel could detract from the vibrancy, vary of financial exercise, and pedestrian-friendly surroundings of the downtown.”

Johannsen defined that the proposed modifications match with downtown grasp plan and official neighborhood plan, including that the modifications solely apply to new companies.

“It gained’t affect present working companies. They’ll nonetheless be capable of function,” he mentioned.

Council didn’t have any dialogue on the proposed bylaw earlier than voting unanimously to maneuver forward.

Full particulars on the bylaw and public listening to course of are on the Metropolis web site, metropolis.langley.bc.ca.

Impacted are:

a) Magnificence and Wellness Facilities means premises, together with magnificence salons and barber outlets, used to supply magnificence and wellness enchancment providers by means of hair styling, chopping or chemical remedy or by means of pores and skin or different physique & nail remedies together with pedicures, manicures, facials, lashes, microdermabrasion, microblading, everlasting make-up, waxing, and laser, hydro, anti-aging, or pores and skin rejuvenation remedy.

b) Private Well being Enhancement Facilities means premises used for the availability of therapies meant to boost well being by means of such methods as Shiatsu, acupressure, reflexology, bio-kinesiology, hellework, polarity, reiki, rolfing and trager strategy and consists of different contact therapies and methods however doesn’t embody Registered Therapeutic massage Remedy Clinics or Magnificence and Wellness Facilities.

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