Planning Commission Minutes 2014 04 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes April; 10, 2014 Page 12of 37 In the package is the draft ordinance seen on March 13, 2014 plus then a red line edit, so you will see the highlighted changes to the ordinance. You can recognize what is different now from what was on March 13, 2014. Those changes came based on comments heard from the Planning Commission and the public as well and staff evaluation. The City of Louisville interprets Food Trucks under Use Group #35 in the Municipal Code and defined as Sales and Repair of Motor Vehicles Outdoor Sales Repair, Appiances, Real Goods, Eating and DrinkingEstablishments and Rental Facilities. Within this, we believe any outdoor sales fall into the Eating and Drinking Establishments. Use Group #35 is allowed in the Commercial PCDZ Zone District and is not allowed in Residential, Commercial Neighborhood, Mixed Use Environments as well as PCDZ Residential or Agricultural. It is a special review use in our commonly understood commercial districts of community business and commercial community. Dialogue in the community last year regarding food trucks asked for more clarity, both to the applicant and the community, on what and where food trucks ought to be allowed and not rely on special review use on a case by case basis. At the last meeting, there wereitems that the Planning Commission asked staff to provide new information for today. Can we create a definition for an ice cream vendor as we are giving o exemptions in the code for ice cream vendor. Special consideration for the Centennial Valley and the Art Center and o Memory Square Park. Specific recommendations for performance criteria. o ICE CREAM VENDOR: In the code within the public right of way (ROW), an exemption is given to the ice cream vendor to operate within residential zone districts. We currently allow it through a business license. The definition used for an ice cream vendor is a person or business within a mobile food truck or mobile food vehicle selling or offering for sale pre-packagedice cream or frozen dairy products on the streets or alleys or public places. We use the City of Denver definition but we added the word “pre-packaged.” This is unique to Louisville and in direct response to Commissioner O’Connell’s comments. This is consistent with what theCity has provided with the business license and allowed to operate in that environment. In Section 2 of the Code Definitions, we are recommending a new use groupbe defined as mobile retail food establishments. We are recommending the use be allowed within all the commercial districts as well as the mixed use residual zone district as a use by right. We are saying it is not allowed in residential zone districts. We created a new use in the Use Table of the Zoning Code. In Section 3, we divided this up on performance criteria to operating within the street’s ROW or public parks or public spaces versus private property. If you