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. . , Minutes of Regula~ Council M~~ting p ag~~ Four May27,1980 Wingert, Crepeau, Woodburn voting in favor; Crichton voting in opposition) . Hanson moved to deny the proposed ordinance amending Ordinance No. 213 for three reasons: 1. Northwestern College has indicated no plans for any building, other than the approved Fine Arts Building, in the next five years, so there is no urgency to offer them relief from their non-conforming status. 2. The Supreme Court has not mandated that the City must zone Bethel and Northwestern Colleges identi- cally in their present locations, 3, Makas Northwestern College conforming in a resi- dential ~one without any means of enforcing them to adhere to regulations (proposed by Wingert pre- vio'usly, Feb. 21, 1980 memo to Council~. 110 tion was s,~ conde d by Woodburn. In discussion, Woodburn referred to the comment thdt the amendment proposal reflects "poor timing". Woodburn said he does not think it is at all a poor time, but rather the best of timing; it's much better to deCide how to approach something in general before you have a specific proposal; all our ordinanceB do this; everything we paBs does not address an issue that is here no'~ - we will address an issue in the future, and the general PUD Ordinance does this and it ~'asntt passed to take care of one situation that was facing us. Motion did nc,t carry (Hanson, Crepeau voting in f'lvor; Wingert, Crichton, Woodburn voting in opposition). Crichton moved that Council adopt Ordinance No. 214, Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 213. Motion was seconded by Wingert. In discussion. Crichton noted that Ordinance No. 213 was adopted to handle the numerous problems on which we all concurred; we, in effect, deferred this one question. Wingert commented that he feels we look kind of "silly" sticking where we are, taking a "head ill the sand" approach to this; "auld like to get it cleaned up; the advantage to the City, further than our oun personal embarassrnent, is that he thinks for either of the colleges to proceed, requires that they do a careful, thoughtful and professional job of developing a PUD on which to proceed; feel. this is some- thing than can be overlooked easily in the flurry of "having to get that building up, because---"; feels the time to do this is when you a re no t "unde r the gun"; sugges te d tba t I:he college s come up with a sensible and well established, well supported PUD; the reeson for their doing so is to get ~D?forming~ not to get us to pass something and the pressure is off them ar.d presumably they will perform better that function of getting a PUD. Wingert said for this reason he'd like tn get the process started, Wingert c>!J_ci, he i$ not, ill favor of "'aiti,,~: 5 or 10 yesrs until there is a dire need to build and applicant, consequently, is pushing and shoving to get approval. HanBo~ said the District Court pretty well outlined the present CouDcil's attitude on the potencial nuisance value of colleges in residential 20nes; Btill very concerned about these things; can't allow expansion indefinitely without becoming a nuisance; ho~ to ~0ul~~1 this is a major concern; one way to do this is make them non~ccnform:Lns .. -L..