Planning Commission Minutes 2014 04 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes April; 10, 2014 Page 19of 37 Brauneis says given the current situation within the City and the case of the brick and mortar owner, why wouldwewant to limit their success going forward?For that reason alone, I am okay with deleting pre-packaged. Moline wants to know what the rationale is behind the 30 days. Russ says all temporary use with the City of Louisville is limited to 30 days. They can get up to two 30 day periods in a year on any temporary use. We are staying consistent with the temporary use requirements of all the other temporary uses allowed within the City. It is within the public ROW and we don’t want them to operate in perpetuity within a public ROW. If you choose otherwise, we can certainly make it 100%consistent which would allow them two 30 day periods;instead we limited it to one with no more than 5 days. The current uses now are not limited to consecutive day period but Staff felt it appropriate. Brauneis says in his limited experience with mobile food establishments, heis curious if two of these would be allowed to happen. One experience was a fundraiser at an elementary school within Boulder City limits. Nothing was presold. They parked in the school parking lot for sales. Would that be allowed? Russ says the reason was parking on school property. BVSD has rights exclusive of the City. Brauneis saysthe other experience was a non-pre-packagedice cream vending vehicle that came to a block party. Russ says technically that would not be allowed since that it is acommercial retail activity. If they had a contract with the neighborhood or the homeowner, that is room for a catered event. Brauneisasks if a single homeowner agreed to a minimum sale,canit be considered a catered event? Russ says it depends on outside sales. It is a commercial activity. We have one brick and mortar restaurant with an ice cream truck. That doesn’t prevent others from introducing it and creating a competitive ice cream environment which would be great for kids. What Staff is trying to do is balance commercial activity in a residential area. We have appropriate places for that called commercial zone districts. We are trying to balance it out and try to exclude commercial activity in residential areas. Tengler asks when we discussed the economic impact, we settled on the notion that there had been about $800 in taxes collected which is effective a toss-up with perceived lost business with the Downtown businesses. That was deemed to be pretty much neutral impact. Russ says that was for Community Park food events last year. Tengler says he recalls that there had been concern about tax collection. Has there been any breach of that?