Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2020 06 11

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes May 14, 2020 Page 2 of 7 Rice opens the discussion to the rest of the commissioners once staff completes their presentation. Moline asks if staff thought about creating a calculation for parking spaces or is that something captured in the zone district regulations? Ritchie says when they look at outdoor dining, they do not assign parking spaces for outdoor dining areas. In this case, through the approval of the SRU though, they can evaluate parking. As a starting point, we would apply the typical parking ratio for a restaurant. Staff has the discretion to evaluate the appropriateness for that particular site. Moline asks if there is a need to create a parking calculation formula. Ritchie says that staff had not thought of that. Staff does not think it is substantially different from a typical restaurant use. Moline says he is comfortable determining that on a case -by -case SRU basis. He then asks if the city has had a chance to reach out to the stakeholders of the food truck community. Ritchie says staff has not reached out to them yet but intends to do so. Hoefner asks if this is a possible use now without this proposed change, and if so, how would you go about it? Ritchie says that in the code you could do it through an SRU through an approval of outdoor dining. It could be problematic though given the context for the food truck operators. There are limitations in the code related to hours of operation as well as the requirement for each individual food truck to get permission from the city and surrounding restaurant operators. Staff is trying to give more operational ease for the property owners and operators. Hoefner then states that it is supposed to make it easier instead of opposing new regulations that did not exist before. Ritchie agrees with Hoefner's conclusion. Rice asks why we would not have the same setback requirements. Ritchie says some impacts are the same but it varies throughout the city what the setbacks are. It could be restrictive if someone is trying to add a food court to a developed site that is smaller. Staff is trying to evaluate where an appropriate location for a food court is. We are asking ourselves where the impact is, what we are mitigating, and what the best way to approach it is. We have been asking if it should be by a case - by -case basis. Williams asks regarding the adjacency to residential, is there any criteria on its proximity?