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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION – AUGUST 21, 2017 6 Councilmember McClung suggested they clarify the definition of hazardous waste and that the language in item A could state “no more than 25% of the total building would be used for classrooms, laboratories and other higher education office functions”. WSB Senior Planner Zweber suggested creating two laboratory definitions, describing the differences between them. Mayor Grant felt classrooms should go under Institutional and offices could go under B-2. Further discussion centered around the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning districts and definitions. Senior Planner Bachler suggested not rezoning the Anderson Center at this time; if Bethel University requests changes to the Conditional Use Permit the City would be evaluating it based on the Institutional Zoning District which allows for more campus uses than originally envisioned for the property. Senior Planner Bachler asked if there was a consensus to remove the “or similar uses” in item A and word it to say Classroom/Offices is limited to classrooms and administrative offices. Councilmember Holmes stated that she thinks Classroom/Office was the only higher education use allowed in Zone B-2. She felt Higher Education Classroom/Office is where you can define where you can have a lab and what a lab is. And the lab could fit within a Classroom/Office designation but would be limited to the 25%, and if a classroom include certain types of labs. Councilmember Holden noted that with the changes there will only be the Institutional Zone and B-2 Zone that will allow Higher Education Classroom/Office. WSB Senior Planner Zweber posed the question: Is the Council comfortable with classrooms in the B-2 Zone or not? Councilmember Holmes stated that with those changes, going forward, what is grandfathered in would be allowed to stay, but no new classroom or labs would be allowed in B-2. WSB Senior Planner Zweber clarified that the Anderson Center would be grandfathered in with the existing Conditional Use Permit, but would not be able to ask for an amendment to that permit. Councilmember McClung gave the example that five years from now Bethel could say they want to get rid of the Conditional Use Permit and if the City has the area zoned Institutional they could want to do all the things that are allowed in Institutional. Councilmember Holmes felt there was not an issue with that. Councilmember Holden said she was most eye-opening thing for her in the report was the number of residents to students in Arden Hills. WSB Senior Planner Zweber stated the high ratio of residents to students is a reason why Arden Hills would want to have limitations that other communities would not.