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City Council Meeting Minutes November 1, 2022 Page 4 of 8 or expansion, reconstruction, or relocation of an existing gasoline service station within 2.5 miles of an existing gasoline service station. It is up to the City Council to determine if it wants to adopt the moratorium ordinance and consider whether it should be adopted, as either an emergency or pursuant to its standard ordinance adoption procedure. Mayor Pro Tem Maloney asked if this would affect maintenance issues for existing gas stations. City Attorney Kelly stated they should be able to do maintenance work unless a building permit is required. Director Zuccaro stated that could be amended if Council wants to clarify that something could be reconstructed or rebuilt if a permit is needed. Councilmember Dickinson asked how this would affect any applications that have already been submitted. City Attorney Kelly stated this moratorium would not affect any land use applications already in process. However, it should a new land use application be approved, the corresponding building permit for the project would be subject to the moratorium if this is approved. That could be amended if Council so desires. Mayor Stolzmann asked Dickinson if this moratorium is what he had in mind when he proposed this. Councilmember Dickinson stated that when he proposed it he was concerned about more applications for gas stations coming into the process during the initiative process. He did not have in mind stopping applications already in process. Councilmember Leh asked what the effect of the initiative would be on the pending application. City Attorney Kelly stated it would depend on the timing. If the initiative petition is filed with sufficient signatures it would come to the Council for consideration, but it may not get enough signatures or be filed so it is hard to say what the timing of all that could be and what impact it would have on any active land use applications. Public Comments Jeff Sheets, Koelbel & Company, land owner for the upcoming gas station application, and owner of Centennial Valley properties, asked Council to create a carve out for the existing application that is in process. He noted the process for the application was slowed down significantly due to the Marshall Fire. He stated his concern that is this process is well underway the rules should not be changed at this stage. Katie Doyle Meyers, Louisville, urged Council to approve the moratorium for the betterment of the community and as a way to address climate change and climate justice. She stated she doesn't support more gas stations in the community. She would like the pause in the process to align our planning with our climate goals. Josh Cooperman, Louisville, stated he supports the moratorium as a first step towards a prohibition on new gas stations. He stated new gas station do not help address climate change. Gas stations do nothing to protect and enhance our environment.