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• CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION OCTOBER 2, 2006 APPROVED 1 planning. However, these advantages must be balanced with the community attitudes 2 toward growth within the City. From this perspective there does not appear to be a better 3 opportunity to address this balancing act than by reviewing the project development as 4 part of the Comprehensive Plan update. 5 6 Community Development Director Grochala outlined the staff comments in response to 7 the developer's request and asked for Council direction on whether or not to proceed. 8 9 The Council indicated agreement that staff and the developer should proceed with the 10 next step within the process. 11 12 Mayor Bergeson called for a short break at 8:10 p.m. 13 14 Mayor Bergeson reconvened the meeting at 8:23 p.m. 15 16 REQUEST FOR CITY CODE AMENDMENT/EXCEPTION 17 18 Council Member Carlson indicated she would like an opinion from the City Attorney 19 regarding participating in this discussion. She advised she would move to the back of the 20 room and not participate until the City's Attorney's opinion is obtained. 21 22 City Administrator Heitke advised staff has received a request to grant an exception from 23 Section 402.02 of the City Code to not require the connection of Old St. Joes Church to 24 the City sewer system. It has been explained to staff that the restored building will be 25 used for special events such as weddings. 26 27 City Administrator Heitke stated staff finds that the proposed use of the facility, which 28 includes human occupancy and human use of the building, does not meet the grounds for 29 exemption by the Council as allowed for in Section 402.02, first paragraph. 30 31 City Administrator Heitke advised Mr. Brausen has also inquired as to whether the code 32 could be amended to accomplish his request. At this time staff has no recommendation 33 for amendment of this section of the code. 34 35 Mr. Theodore Brausen came forward and outlined his request for exception to the City 36 ordinance with special circumstances allowing them to install a storage tank for the sewer 37 system. 38 39 The Council directed staff to get an opinion from the City Attorney regarding the 40 requested exception from the City ordinance to install a storage tank. 41 42 NATURE'S REFUGE EAW 43 44 City Planner Smyser advised Nature's Refuge is a conservation development project that 45 was the topic of a May 31 presentation to a joint meeting of the City Council and all the 46 advisory boards. The site lies north of Main Street, generally between Lake Drive and