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City Council Meeting Minutes June 2, 2015 Page 9 of 27 would not want to endorse a principle that would suggest the City would never entertain an ordinance to make some changes to the zoning code. Council member Lipton asked for consensus on what defines high density housing. Council member Stolzmann said her intent was to cool the temperature of the discussion so citizens knew the Council had listened and was not proposing any additions to high density housing over the zoning currently allowed. Council member Lipton suggested the first principle read "not approve housing above what the zoning already allows ". Council member Stolzmann agreed as did Mayor Muckle. Mayor Muckle asked if anyone disagreed with the second principle. He heard no disagreement. He noted he would go along with the third principle as long as it did not . say conditional was not allowed. He felt conditional uses could be beneficial. Planning and Building Safety Director Russ asked for clarification of the second principle. Council member Lipton noted he saw it as not going below what is in place for entitlements and zoning. Planning and Building Safety Director Russ asked if building heights and design guidelines for building placement were still on the table for discussion. Council member Lipton felt they were and could be topics of further discussion; the numbers seem to be what is consuming Council at this point. Council member Leh suggested perhaps the second principle could be taken out, not because Council didn't want to respect property rights, but there is willingness and ability by Council to follow the law and what is already in place which demands respect for those rights. Council member Loo felt it was relatively simple thing to be thoughtful about running a road through private property. She wanted to leave the principle in. Council member Stolzmann was comfortable taking it out if Council went through each public improvement. She noted with all the marks on the map, staff should be aware of the residents being affected. She wanted a message sent that Council was not making decisions counter- productive to those residents and the community's mission. Council member Leh noted when doing any planning there was a certain amount of marking maps up that is normal. He did not want to potentially create property rights that don't exist. Council member Stolzmann wanted to give staff direction to help better align with the community.