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Licensing: While farmers selling agricultural products cannot be required to obtain a license; the city, county, and state all may require licenses for other products. The city currently has a section of the city code that requires licenses for `transient merchants'. That portion of the code should likely need to be revised regardless of whether the zoning ordinance is changed or not. Zoning: In addition to determining what zones the uses should be allowed in, how the use is allowed must also be considered. With proper performance standards, the use could be allowed in all zoning districts, and the use could be approved by administrative permit. Performance Standards: There are a number of issues to consider. Staff has come up with a list of about 14, they are listed below as recommendations and points for discussion. o The site must have access to a collector or arterial roadway. o Access to the site must be provided via an established curb cut or drive. o The site must be developed with a minimum of five permanent parking spaces. o The sales and parking areas for this temporary use must not occupy more than 30% of the parking required by Section 3.Subdivision 5 for the permanent uses on the site. o Pedestrian and vehicular controls are provided so that sidewalks and rights -of -way are not obstructed. o All sales activities, temporary structures and signs must be setback 10 feet from all property lines and meet the traffic visibility requirements of Section 3.Subdivison 3.E.1.c. o All sales activities, temporary structures and signs must be setback 200 feet from any property line adjacent to existing residential development unless buffered from the residential development by an existing building. o All temporary structures must meet building and fire codes. An inspection of the site will be completed to verify that requirements are being met. The cost of the initial inspection is included in the administrative permit fee for a temporary open sales lot/farmer's market. o One sandwich board sign permit is included in the administrative permit fee for a temporary open sales lot/farmer's market. Additional signage may be obtained with a separate permit, and must comply with the Lino Lakes sign code. (Staff added this so that applicants would see it as an added value to the permit fee, plus a sandwich board sign can be reused over and over without another permit. While a temporary sign of any other kind has only a 17 day permit period and can only be issued once every calendar quarter of the year.) o The holder of the permit shall be responsible for leaving the property free of debris, litter or other evidence of the temporary use immediately upon completion or removal of the • • •