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MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION MARCH 8, 2007 number of retail motor vehicles sales licenses (outdoor) from four (4) to five (5) Motion seconded by Knudsen. Motion carried 5 - 0. AMENDMENT The City Planner reviewed his report dated March 5, 2007 relative to TO ZONING outdoor storage in the Light Industrial District (I-1). The Planner CODE - indicated that the Council will be calling for a moratorium on new outdoor OUTDOOR storage permits at their next meeting in order to give the City time to revise STORAGE IN the outdoor storage regulations. As part of the process, the Planner LIGHT- indicated that he will be developing ordinance language for the Planning INDUSTRIAL Commission's review. The Planner indicated that code enforcement DISTRICT (I-1) relative to outdoor storage consumes an inordinate amount of City time. The Planner noted that his report identifies six different components of outdoor storage that are regulation concerns. The first point relates to the requirement of a CUP for any outdoor storage. The Planner pointed out that the list of conditions for a CUP is fairly general. The second point is a suggestion that a minimum square footage of indoor space be established to qualify for outdoor storage. Knudsen noted that the I-P District limits outdoor storage to 25% of the building size. Knudsen suggested applying that same percentage in the I-1 District. The Planner noted the third point and highlighted that the way the Code is currently written, a tenant need only rent 1 square foot of interior space in order to qualify for outdoor storage. The Planner felt that a threshold requirement should be established for the amount of interior space that needs to be rented in order to qualify for outdoor storage. The Planner suggested that if the interior space rental does not meet that threshold, then the tenant would not qualify for any outdoor storage. The City will have to determine how low that threshold should be. The Planner pointed out that a number of the Ryan Industrial Park buildings are broken down into multi- tenant buildings. Knudsen suggested that some research will be needed to establish this threshold, suggesting that the Planner look at the Ryan buildings as well as what other cities are doing. Pechmann agreed, and pointed out that the threshold could be either a percentage of the building or square footage of the building. The Planner noted that there are issues with certain buildings in Ryan Industrial Park. Some of these buildings have a lot of tenants, each with a piece of the outdoor storage. These situations lead to more clutter as well as confusion from a code enforcement standpoint. Knudsen suggested that a building occupancy threshold of 25% to 30% may be reasonable. Knudsen suggested that the Commission will -5-