Additional
City Council Announcements
April, 24, 2012
1:10:12 PM Information needed by staff:
D. Timeline for agenda items
- Does the Council want to set the public hearing of an item before a briefing has been held? Ms. Gust-Jenson asked if it was acceptable to set public hearings before having briefings. Council Members were ok setting public hearings before briefings but wanted to hold a briefing before the hearing. Council Members wanted to know if a section could be put on the agenda of upcoming hearing dates. Ms. Gust-Jenson said they could move in that direction. Councilmember Simonsen asked if they wanted it to be public information. Council Members were in favor of it being public information.
E. Revisions to the Idle Free Ordinance
- According to the state code, the city has until 5/8/12 to adopt these revisions. Do Council members want a briefing or just schedule adoption? Council Members just wanted the item scheduled for adoption.
F. Stan’s Announcement: D-1 Central Business District Parking Regulations (Not Held)
- Request to support initiating a petition to delete section 21A.30.020.D.3.e (D-1 Central Business District) of the City’s zoning ordinance.
- This provision is listed with other D-1 regulations intended to limit the construction of parking lots and parking structures to appropriate locations, typically interior to the block and behind a building with retail or other types of land uses fronting the street.
- However, this provision seems contrary to the intent of the D-1 regulations and could even encourage the demolition of buildings to allow for parking lots/structures to be constructed along the street right-of-way.
Is the Council supportive of this request?
The citation is 21A.30.020.D.3.e, states:
e. Parking lots, proposed as a principal use to facilitate a building demolition, shall be permitted as a conditional use with the approval of the planning commission pursuant to the provisions of chapter 21A.54 of this title, where it is found that the parking lot is:
(1) Associated with a proposed principal land use; or
(2) Shown to be necessary for an existing adjacent land use(s). Demand shall be demonstrated through affidavits or executed lease agreements for off site parking. Said lot shall be located within five hundred feet (500') of the principal use(s) that it is proposed to serve, and shall not exceed more than fifty percent (50%) of the required parking stall count for said use(s); or
(3) Not associated with a principal land use or a specific increase in parking demand. The applicant shall document to the planning commission's satisfaction that there is a need for more commercial parking in a given area and, if so, it must participate in the overall downtown token program.