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Regular Council Meeting <br />5-19-03 <br />Page 16 <br />mentioned, Mr. Marquardt, was that we have zoning that does cover/allow for this purpose so <br />there is a use and a referendum certainly is a method, an appropriate method, to handle it. Just <br />for the record, I think (and I stated it several years ago with the doctor's and we are still trying to <br />work on it), I think we've been working on trying to come up with a new landscape (not the <br />greenery term) but a new function and use for Beta Park. I think that has not been an easy task <br />and it's not going to be an easy task-but I don't always think that things happen in the order <br />that you plan. Sometimes you get the opportunity for someone to come in and want to do <br />something exciting and new and different and it mixes with plans that are on the table and ideas <br />and dreams and things that people are thinking about and trying to formulate. So, once again, we <br />do have this other opportunity where there's this other mechanism for allowing the use. Granted, <br />it isn't the referendum vote but our Charter does allow that it be done this way and, again, so I <br />am recommending going forward with it in the interest that these are the kinds of businesses and <br />uses and revitalization for the area that we would like to see. <br />Mr. Riter addressed Council President Buckholtz and asked, are we offering a conditional use <br />permit to these individuals? Or, are we offering a conditional use permit for anybody that would <br />want to come in and put up a hotel? <br />Council President Buckholtz said I will defer to the Law Director-it's a case by case situation. <br />Ms. Calta said right. We are actually issuing the conditional use permit to the individuals who <br />have applied. <br />Council President Buckholtz added: this project. We are not bound to do that in another <br />situation but---- <br />Mr. Riter asked, can they sell this-is this an asset then that they could sell? Or does it cease to <br />exist? <br />Ms. Calta said a conditional use permit will stay with the use. As long as that building is there <br />the use will be allowed. So if they changed ownership or someone purchased that, the use would <br />still stay with it but the conditions would attach. <br />Dr. Parker said one of the conditions they had indicated was the quality of the type of hotel. I <br />would certainly hate to-how defined is this hotel use? We were told it would be a certain kind <br />of class hotel; it wasn't going to be this or that, I mean how do we make sure that if we approve <br />this that they aren't going to sell it to someone who's going to do a job that's perhaps not what <br />we originally intended--but it still meets the criteria of a hotel? <br />Ms. Calta said the recommendation from Planning was based upon their representation of this <br />hotel and that is what the condition would be, exactly. <br /> <br /> <br />Dr. Parker said that is what I am referring to.