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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JULY 14, 2025 6 Councilmember Weber said they may prefer a higher requirement so more kids ride the bus and makes transportation more affordable. Councilmember Holden said or they will park on the street and we have to put out signs. Mayor Grant said all of the existing language will be grandfathered unless we change it. City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. She verified a question from earlier that the colleges and universities are under "Schools Higher Education". The "Schools Specialized Education" are beauty, art, music, dance, driving schools. Councilmember Holden said that "Higher Education" isn't on the list in front of them. City Administrator Jagoe said this table does not include every land use category that exists in the ordinance. This is a sampling of all of the uses. Councilmember Rousseau would be interested in better understanding about the standard for Higher Education. There is a college in our community and the under -freshmen don't have cars. It would be nice to allow spaces for them to have cars so they can go out into the community without walking down the railroad track. Mayor Grant isn't sure how we handle a university that is half in Arden Hills and half in Roseville. He said we can't tailor this code thinking of one college. Councilmember Holden said there were a lot of reasons that building height in nonresidential districts were limited at 35 feet. She would not want to increase that. Councilmember Weber agrees. We have the PUD process. The applicant could tell us why they want to go higher and Council could approve or deny. Councilmember Holden asked for a definition of "Recreation, Outdoor Commercial". This says 50 spaces. When there are soccer games at Hazelnut, there are easily 50 cars in that parking lot. That's just two teams. City Administrator Jagoe said that category was added approximately two years ago for businesses like Flaherty's. It's limited to one zoning district. It must be accessory to an existing commercial recreational indoor use and there is a certain square footage allowed. Councilmember Weber said public spaces aren't applicable to anything on the list. Councilmember Rousseau said we haven't discussed Recreational Outdoor Commercial use. It seems like in a retail space they can have an indoor recreational use with a slide park. She doesn't want Council to get ahead of itself. Councilmember Holden said someone could buy a piece of land and make an outdoor recreational thing out of it. She just wants to make sure there is enough parking. Council discussion moved to the principal uses on the table.