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Minutes of a Public Hearing October 6, 2010 <br />Page 19 <br />I think Council members were asked. Department Heads were asked. In years past, we <br />have had Dr. Keller previously and some others from CSU. We have tried to make each <br />Charter Review Commission independent and have that opportunity to kind of study this <br />stuff. The strength and the weakness of that is that they are detached and by being <br />detached they are not always conversant with the day to day and I think part of this whole <br />discussion we're having comes back to what are the best ways for us as a community to <br />coordinate that kind of deliberative process. But I would like to have Mr. Farmer, I think <br />he can answer that question a little bit and then we can keep going on. <br />Mr. Farmer: Really, because I was on the. Commission also, besides being on Planning and <br />Zoning, and the big thrust of that amendment was the development factor. Warehouse <br />distribution is the zoning in that area. It's an antiquated zoning classification. Anybody <br />that drives up Beta can see that it's dead. Every other property has for sale signs, for rent <br />signs. It's the perfect set up for this community to be able to put all our commercial stuff <br />in that area. It won't affect any of the residential housing areas where we live and it's <br />just wasting away. It's not being used properly. Any of the uses that are going in there, <br />the hotel, Progressive claims center, dance studio, dance schools, all those are going in <br />there under conditional use permits. I won't go into the discussion of what those are, but <br />that's not the way you want to do the zoning there. They're only good for two years, so if <br />somebody, you are asking somebody to invest money in a new business that's not in that <br />zoning classification and after two years, you don't want them there, they're gone. So <br />who's going to enter into that kind of an arrangement? The zoning amendment really <br />was just to help us with the competitive market when people come in that we could <br />change the zoning to fit some of these new uses that people want to see there because <br />what we have in there right now isn't working for us. <br />Mayor Rinker: This was a question that came up on the floor of Council. Everyone will have a <br />chance to ask a question, but I want to try to keep us in themes here. It goes back to a <br />couple of the other questions here, did the Commission discuss distinguishing between <br />referendum across the board versus separating out residential from non-residential? <br />Something that was brought up at Council based on our process because the Commission <br />had made a recommendation, Council really has to be a pass-through to make sure that <br />the voters decide the question. But did the Commission deal with specifically separating <br />the split between residential and non-residential for a more selective issue? <br />Mr. Farmer: No. <br />Q: Why not?