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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 25, 2025 Page 4 Sections 11 and 12 – Adoption/Admin language. There are several sections of the code dealing 1 with enforcement, and that refer to the Code “Enforcement” Official. This language will be 2 replaced with the revised title of Code “Compliance” Official. The current zoning language has a 3 number of sections that refer to “permitted” activities. Many of these are more accurately 4 rendered as “allowed” activities. Because a “Permitted Use” is a term of art that refers to uses 5 that DO NOT require further permitting, the text is being updated to inclusively refer to 6 “allowed” uses, which may be permitted, licensed, conditional, or require some other process. – 7 No changes. 8 9 Section 13 – Recreational Fires. This section makes changes to recreational burning in the 10 following ways, in response to Fire Department recommendations and recent experiences with 11 recreational fires in the community: 12 • Adds a restriction for fire size that reduces allowable height for portable fireplaces, 13 reducing the allowance for 3 feet (for ground-level fires) to 2 feet. 14 • Specifies that manufactured materials (such as treated wood, plastic, etc. is not to be 15 burned in a recreational fire. 16 • Adds clarification to the 25-foot setback for recreational fires. 17 • Adds a requirement to extinguish the fire if it is not in compliance with the code; and 18 • Replaces statutory references with a general requirement for compliance (due to 19 constantly changing statutes, rules, and other regulations). Duplicate subparagraph 20 deleted. 21 22 Councilmember Doolan asked if there is something in the Code related to regional fire bans. Mr. 23 Grittman stated included are conditions regarding wind and air quality. 24 25 Section 14 – Nuisance Noise – This section modifies the recently adopted language to set a noise 26 decibel level at the property line, rather than a distance measurement. While the distance 27 measurement is arguably easier to measure, it is subjective, in that it depends on the subjective 28 impression of the listener. The revised language is a numeric measurement by a decibel meter. 29 This is a verifiable standard, and while not perfect, there are a variety of smartphone apps that 30 provide an easy method of approximating decibel measurements to aid in ensuring compliance. – 31 No changes. 32 33 Section 15 – Dangerous Dogs. This section is proposed to be updated to add definitions for 34 various terms used in the text of the existing code (and makes one statutory reference update). 35 The definitions are for “Dangerous Dog”, “Potentially Dangerous Dog”, “Proper Enclosure”, and 36 “Substantial Bodily Harm”. These definitions are drawn largely from statute, and/or from 37 representative ordinances in nearby communities. – No changes. 38 39 Section 16 – Temporary “For Rent” Signs on Rental Property. This update adds a category of 40 temporary sign to allow residential property owners to display a notice during times when they 41 are actively attempting to rent a dwelling unit. The ordinance language is written to specify that 42 the sign may be displayed during those times. However, we are not permitted to require that such 43 signs only advertise the rental. This would be a content-based regulation, which we cannot 44 require. Instead, we rely on the likelihood that most landlords will use this opportunity to provide 45 notice of the vacant dwelling, rather than for other speech. – No changes. 46