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I I .- . . . . I . .e I I I I I I I .. I ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JULY 25, 1994 13 APPROVE AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 18 REGARDING PEDDLERS. SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS AND CHAPTER 18 OF THE ARDEN HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING THE APPROVING BODY FOR LICENSES Fritsinger stated that staff is proposing the following amendments to Chapter IS of the Municipal Code in Ordinance No. 296. The first is to redefine Transient Merchant in Section lS-03 with regard to open sales lots to clear up confusion. Section IS-13(A)(B)(C) is changed to lS-14(A)(B)(C)(D) Prohibited Practices, including a definition of open sales lots where peddlers, solicitors or transient merchants are not permitted. Also, appropriate changes should be made to Chapter 13, where the City Administrator is given authority to approve requests from peddlers, solicitors and transient merchants, so that it is consistent with the amendments in Chapter IS. Person stated that for the sake of clarification, a synopsis memo will be prepared with the final resolutions and ordinance changes and put on the Council agenda for August S, 1994. BETHEL COLLEGE - REOUEST FOR EXTENSION OF USE OF A TEMPORARY BUILDING Fritsinger stated that in 19S9, Bethel College was given approval to locate a temporary office building immediately north of the new Community Life Center, for office space use through October 1994. The intention was to remove the temporary building when new office space was constructed as part of the Community Life Center. For budgetary reasons, the office space was not built. The college has continued to have enrollment increases and a demand for office space. An existing housing building was to be converted into office space, but that is not feasible with increasing enrollment. At the present time the college is working with a professional firm to update and revise their master plan, and they have requested an extension of the approval to use the temporary office building until October 1995. A number of improvements have been done to the facility with walkways and siding on the building to make it look natural and part of the campus. Staff is recommending approval of the request. Mayor Probst noted that Bethel College has been a good citizen of the community and has attempted in all cases to work with the City. He was serving on the P1anning COInmis.qion when this temporary building was approved with some consternation about how long it would be until the new building would be built. It would be appropriate to express this frustration to Campus officials. Fritsinger stated that a representative from the college was planning to attend this meeting but due to a conflict was unable to come. Hicks noted that the building is reasonably attractive and well kept, and that there are probably good logistical financial reasons why they were unable to get the office space that