City Council Minutes 1984 06 30 SP

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Special Meeting, City Council June 30, 1984 Page 8 restrictions, and the mortarium on building permits. Fast Track 1 and 2, short-term, we have taken care of today. Growth planning is appropriate, we have service problems that go beyond just delivering water, ie, sewer plant riot at capacity, roads which are over-loaded, swimming pool which is over-crowded, etc. Council needs to address this for a long-range. When this council came in, we were told the services were available, and now we need to question these assumptions. City attorney needs to work with the Planning Dept. and come up for the first reading an ordinance to require all new building in the City to have flow restriction devices, which would limit domestic use of water, ie, showers, toilets, etc. Fact sheet needs to be discussed, immediate and long range, in terms of educating both water restrictions and corporate plannings, etc. Leary: I want to talk about the fact sheet. Good idea, but what facts are we going to represent? We can factually state where we are, but not at this time, state how we got here. Many different opinions on that, and to make sure it is a fact sheet and not a political philosophy sheet, I think that should be kept out of it. Karl...on the car washing operators questions, we have not addressed that and need to. This is complicated issue and this is related to someone who is trying to make a living. This needs attention. We need to address new lawns today and tomorrow and what the maximum gap would be, 8 or 9 days. Discussion among the council members and Kasch regarding the actual days and hours to each ward.as follows: Monday, Ward ~' & 3, 6 AM to 8 AM. Two hours only Monday, Wardl, 7 PM to 9 PM, Two hours only Tuesday, NO watering Kasch urged council memt~ers to stay with the hours and the days and the day off schedule until the construction work is totally completed. Perhaps an hour could be added in September. Johnson: The key to thi'swhole thing is to educate the people on the proper way to water. Mayor Meier said the car• wash operators were asked to curtail their operations; if the citi~:enscauld not water their lawns, then how come the car wash companies c:an operate, therefore they were shut down. This cannot be done on a permanent basis. Leary: How much water does a car wash use? Kasch: That would have to come from the meter readings. Mayor: How about requesting they limit their hours to a reasonable time limit. I don't think we can determine this today. Leary: Table this until Tuesday, and hopefully we will have some data. New lawns: Enforcement could be a problem. If this begins Monday, they should be allowed .s week permit. Curt: You want a permii: issued to all new lawn owners for 3 weeks?