SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Monday, August 25, the Sioux City City Council passed the first of three readings regarding updates to an ordinance that deals with car dealerships in city limits.<\/p>\n
Back in June of 2024, the Sioux City City Council passed a 6-month moratorium on car dealerships in city limits, which prevented any new dealerships from moving to Sioux City. This allowed city staff to look into all the locations of car dealerships to set new standards.<\/p>\n
Once that ended, a second moratorium was passed this past January<\/a>, giving city staff more time to find an effective way to address \u201cthe community\u2019s issues regarding automobile sales locations\u201d.<\/p>\n Now, the council is considering changes to an ordinance to officially set those new standards. Those changes would include defining automobile sales, rental, and service into different categories:<\/p>\n Motor Vehicle Sales (New and Used)Motor Vehicle Sales (Used)Automobile Service and RepairMoto Vehicle Sales Indoor Showroom Only<\/p>\n The changes would also set standards for landscaping, spacing on the lots, and how cars are displayed.<\/p>\n The new ordinance would not put a permanent cap on the total number of all dealerships in the city limits.<\/p>\n During the moratorium, the city found that Sioux City has \u201croughly twice as many automobile sales establishments compared to the total population\u201d. Sioux City also has the fourth-highest concentration of automobile dealers in the state.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess the council will have to review that when we see, when we open this up in a couple of weeks, the onslaught of how many new dealerships we have in town, and maybe that will convince the others that it\u2019s time to put a permanent cap on it. That\u2019s what South Sioux did, and I understand why,\u201d said Bob Scott, Mayor of Sioux City.<\/p>\n The vote passed 4 to 1, with Mayor Bob Scott against the changes.<\/p>\n The council still needs to vote on this new ordinance two more times before it can take effect. <\/p>\n The soonest the Council could revisit this topic is Sept. 8, since they won\u2019t meet on Sept. 1 due to the Labor Day holiday.<\/p>\n Want to get the latest news and weather from Siouxland\u2019s News Source? Follow these links to download our KTIV News app<\/a> and our First Alert Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 KTIV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Monday, August 25, the Sioux City City Council passed the first of three readings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[68010,68011,128,130,129,68008,68009,68012,27807,68007],"class_list":["post-148950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-car-dealerships-sioux-city","tag-car-sales-sioux-city","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sioux-city-automobile-sales","tag-sioux-city-car-dealerships","tag-sioux-city-car-sales","tag-sioux-city-council","tag-sioux-city-council-ordiance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}