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Page 3 May 6, 1993 commercial zoning study and moratorium. This will make a more complete and updated commercial zoning study. Next steps At this time the exact legal and planning studies required to proceed on the second tract are not clearly defined since it is a new area for this city and has few, if any, precedents in many other cities. In the past cities have typically reacted to requests for uses with secondary impacts by denying them, then dealing with the results. The following steps may start the planning process for these uses. 1. Specifically identify what uses may require additional research and study. In other words those uses that may have secondary impacts.(e.g. gun shops, pawn shops, adult uses, secondhand stores, others) 2. Do legal research to determine what authority the city has to regulate these uses. These might include the authority to license, eliminate and /or place conditions on the business. At this time the city attorney knows that the same laws do not apply to each of these uses. For example, adult uses may have different requirements than gun shops. 3. Once the city's authority is determined, staff will proceed with the necessary planning reviews, studies, and work with the planning commission to recommend comprehensive plan amendments, ordinances, and /or licensing requirements to address these uses. Staff anticipates that existing secondary impact studies and ordinances on adult uses are available for the city to revise for its use. These secondary impact studies may not exist for other identified uses. Therefore, a new study will be done with different findings if appropriate. However, given the size of the Falcon Heights commercial district and the readily available information on land uses in the community, these studies should not be complex. Staff will work with the planner to expedite this process and keep the price down.