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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—January 10, 2011 8 7.A. Amend Sections 1305.04 and 1320 in the Zoning Code (continued) Councilmember Holden asked for an explanation regarding the concept review in the PUD process on page 53, Section 1320.14, Subd. 1. City Planner Beekman stated the Concept Plan Review is optional for the districts in the City outside of TCAAP. The Concept Plan Review is required in the PUD process for the TCAAP district. The Concept Plan Review has always been optional as part of the PUD process. The language for the PUD process is being changed to match more closely with language used for the PUD process for the TCAAP property. Councilmember Holden asked if Subd. 3.E. on page 54 was part of the Master Plan or Concept Plan Review. City Planner Beekman stated that it would be considered part of the general procedure for all PUD's. The order for the PUD process would be: the concept plan review, the master plan review, and the final plan review. Subd. 3.E. outlines this process. She clarified the process has not been changed. The first opportunity for public input is with the Planning Commission for all of the City's land use requests unless they have conducted community meetings. Community meetings are optional and the developer conducts them. The City has occasionally recommended the developer host a community meeting. She clarified this has been optional because there are several circumstances where a community meeting would not be needed. Councilmember Holmes stated on page 56, Item E has been removed. She asked if this was in the code somewhere else. City Planner Beekman stated this same language is in Section 1355 of the City's Procedures and it was not necessary in this section. Councilmember Holmes stated on the land use chart antenna dish or towers were listed together but they are defined separately. She asked if they were considered the same thing. City Planner Beekman explained towers and dishes have different definitions, uses and regulations and they are referred to separately in the City's Codes. There is no distinction between them for the land use chart. Councilmember Holmes clarified there was no longer a distinction between restaurant and fast food restaurants. City Planner Beekman stated the idea is to modernize the City's Code and fast food restaurants have changed in function over the last decade. It is increasingly difficult to differentiate places such as Chipotle where wine and beer are sold or Subway. Traditional fast food restaurants that have a drive-up window have a certain traffic pattern associated with them which is different than the traffic patterns of a fast food restaurant that may be located in a complex or do not typically have a drive-up window. Those fast food restaurants without a drive-up window function more Iike a restaurant from a traffic stand point. The land use chart focuses on the way the land uses are regulated and restaurants and fast food restaurants are regulated differently depending on what