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Lake Elmo Agenda Section: Planning, Land Use and Zoning No. 9E City Council May 2, 2006 Agenda Item: Zoning Text Amendment — Outdoor Social Events Background Information for May 2, 2006: On April 18 the City Council referred this matter back to the Planning Commission to consider and make recommendations regarding several issues/concerns raised by Council Members during the April 18 Council discussion of the proposed ordinance amendment. The Commission again considered the matter at its April 24 meeting — based on the recollections of the staff regarding the Council's stated concerns (draft April 18 Council minutes were not available on April 24. The Commission discussed the Council's concerns (and additional concerns as well) at length and adopted 3 additional recommendations for mandatory CUP conditions: • Limiting the hours for any event to 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. • Prohibiting charging an admission fee for any outdoor social event • Prohibiting any artificial lighting The Commission also discussed the concerns of the Council regarding the scale of the events — as measured by total number of persons permitted by acre and in maximum. A Motion to reduce the maximum from 500 persons to 250 persons failed (3:6), and Motion to maintain the previously recommended 500 person maximum was adopted (7-2). Issues of traffic and parking were also discussed. The Commission concluded that such matters were both site and event specific, and would be best addressed with the individual CUP conditions. The draft ordinance presented April 18 is again attached — as amended to include the additional conditions recommended by the Commission on April 24. Person responsible: Action items: Motion to adopt Ordinance #97 — regarding Outdoor Social Events City Planner as Conditional Uses in the AG zoning district. Attachments: Time Allocated: 1. Draft Ordinance #97 - I iv 1 2. Draft Planning Commission Minutes of April 24, 2006 3. Planning Staff Memos to the Planning Commission (2)