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the penalty to a Hearing Officer, among others. Penalties, including financial penalties, would be adopted as a part of the City’s fee schedule. Council: Councilmembers provided extensive input into the process and requirements for the hearing process. Staff notes that the structure of the ordinance is to provide compliance staff the opportunity to work with property owners and occupants toward compliance as a first option, consistent with current practice. The intent of this section is to provide a remedy – short of a Zoning misdemeanor (criminal) charge – for those situations where cooperative compliance cannot be achieved. Much of the material, particularly the Hearing Procedure section, has been imported from other communities that have adopted this process. Highlighted sections of the ordinance text reflect areas of modification based on Council feedback after the worksession. Planning Commission: Comments were primarily technical and typographical. The Commission suggested that the City’s ability to forego the Administrative route directly to prosecution should be limited to more “serious” or “repeat offender” cases. This change is not reflected in the proposed text. Food Trucks This item has been discussed in the past, leading to this proposed ordinance language. The proposed ordinance identifies requirements for such “mobile food units”, establishes a requirement for such operators to receive appropriate licensing from State and County authorities, and requires a fire safety inspection by St. Anthony Fire personnel. It further allows the SAV Fire Chief to accept proof of inspection by other municipalities that conduct similar inspections, in lieu of a local inspection. The code explicitly permits food truck operations only where there are (1) public special events (or Conditional Use Permits) in which such Mobile Food Units may sell to the public as a part of such event (the Code does permit a local food service facility to operate a food truck on their own property – the CUP provision) ; or (2) as a part of a private event where the Mobile Food Unit is a catering facility and no separate sales are allowed. The code does not allow Mobile Food Units to occupy property – public or private – in the City as an independent food seller, under the direction that local food service establishments should not need to compete with such units. The City Council requested a carve-out for specific mobile foot units (namely, ice cream trucks and lunch trucks) that operate in the City, but constitute an alternative type of food truck. The Definition of Mobile Food Units has been appended to added item (3), which allows these types of vehicles to operate outside of the rules that would apply to other food trucks. The definition limits the carve-out to vehicles that move from place to place, are properly licensed under State regulations, which serve only prepackaged foot, and which vehicles are no greater than 22 feet, 2 inches in length. Most ice cream trucks are 18 feet or less in length (research indicates a common length of 14 feet). Lunch trucks most often operate from pick-up truck vehicles, the longest of which are GMC, Ford, and Ram vehicles of 22 feet, 2 inches. The combination of requirements is designed to effectively prohibit common food trucks, which are often 26 feet or more in length, and serve food to order, not prepackaged goods. Planning Commission – The most substantive comment was to reconsider the general prohibition of food trucks as an opportunity for low-entry cost entrepreneurship, as well as support for the environment that they can create. This comment is not reflected in the proposed text. Impervious Surfaces This item clarifies the existing definition of impervious surface (found within the definition of “Lot Coverage” in the Zoning Ordinance), specifying that only the property within the legal boundaries of a