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Mounds View Planning Commission Regular Meeting December 3, 2014 Page 2 4. Citizens Requests and Comments on Items Not on the Agenda None. 5. Planning Cases None. 6. Other Planning Activity A. Discuss Proposed Code Amendment for I-1, Industrial Zoning District Uses Planning Associate Heller informed the Commission that at the November 19, 2014 Planning Commission meeting, Staff and the Commission discussed adding additional uses to the industrial district zoning code. The Commission was supportive of adding medical supply and pharmacy to the allowed uses, particularly to accommodate businesses that currently exist in industrial zoned properties. The Commission also felt it was appropriate to change some current conditional uses to be allowed uses. She reviewed the proposed changes to the City Code in further detail with the Commission and requested comment on how to proceed. Commissioner Love did not believe that daycare centers belonged in industrial parks. Associate Heller reported daycare centers required many conditions in order to be located in any business or industrial districts. Chair Stevenson asked if the pawnshop allowance would be impacted by the proposed code amendment. Associate Heller indicated the pawnshop would not be impacted by this code amendment because there is a pawnshop overlay district. Motion/Second: Commissioner Rundle/Commissioner Schiltgen. To Adopt Resolution 1017- 14, Recommending Approval of Amendments to Chapter 1116 of the Mounds View City Code About Industrial Zoning District Uses; Special Planning Case 191-14. Ayes — 6 Nays — 0 Motion carried. B. Discuss Proposed Code Amendments to Title 1100 for Renewable Energy Systems Planning Associate Heller informed the Commission that in 2013, Ordinance 883 was passed which created completely new requirements in the City Code about renewable energy systems.