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