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Planning & Zoning Board February 12, 2003 APPROVED MINUTES Page 52 Page 6-34 under conditional uses, clubs and l odges, Mr. Smyser suggested be deleted. The Board agreed with the suggestion. No changes were made to the R-6 Dist rict. The R-7 District was deleted. Brick red would be added to the colors under the neighborhood business district. Mr. Smyser asked if gas stations should be a llowed in the business districts. He stated the other committees agreed they shoul d remain in the business districts. Mr. Lyden stated no -- gas stati ons should not be allowed. He indicated the City did not need this. Mr. Smyser stated they woul d remain in as a Conditional Use Permit as written. Ms. Lane asked if gas stations stayed in the Ordinance, di d they have to approve the development. Mr. Smyser replied as long as the development met the requirements, the Board would have to approve the developmen t. He noted they were tightening up the requirements for gas stations. Mr. Hyden stated he was concerned that the City would have 50 gas stations. He stated the City had too many gas stations and banks. Mr. Smyser replied they could not legally base any decision on how many people showed up to oppose it, but they could oppose it by lim iting the locations of the gas stations by putting something in the Zoning Ordinance. Chair Schaps noted the gas stations were alr eady limited to basically four intersections in the City. Councilmember Carlson asked why couldn’t they limit gas stations like they do liquor stores, by saying they need to be so far apart. Chair Schaps asked who wanted to eliminate gas stations. The Board recommended to eliminate it out of the ne ighborhood business district. Mr. Rafferty suggested limiting gas stations to the freeway accesses. Chair Schaps stated if they wanted commercial development, whet her they like it or not, it would need to have a gas station with it to be successful. Mr. Rafferty noted there were many business th ey could put in. Chair Schaps replied no developer would be interested in developing if they could not ensure people would get out of their car. He noted gasoline drives the leasing. He noted the only option they had was to say where they did not want gas stations – not that they did not want them in the City. Mr. Rafferty stated he was in favor of elimin ating gas stations from commercial sites and limiting them to the freeway entrances.