Gateway Mixed Use Zone overhaul
Summary
The council rewrote the rules for the TV Highway/Fred Meyer area to block new drive-throughs, gas stations and auto-oriented businesses while letting existing ones stay. Cornelius has 37 auto-oriented businesses along the highway — more per mile than comparable cities — and the city wants that corridor to become more walkable and mixed-use instead.
At a glance
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Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Sep 8, 2026.
Impact analysis
No direct cost to taxpayers, but the zone rules shape what gets built — and what jobs and businesses — along the highway corridor.
Residents and future residents of the corridor's housing developments who want walkable, non-drive-through neighborhood services.
Property owners like the Moyer family's southern tax lot, which sought a drive-through restaurant conditional use and did not get it.
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