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Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Page 12 family sustaining waged jobs; and limiting overwhelming retail uses. Mr. Trudgeon 543 advised that it was staff’s intent to retain that specific goal statement in the ordinance and 544 live within the original spirit of the Twin Lakes Master Plan. However, Mr. Trudgeon 545 explained that the problem with the Master Plan was in the many different ways it could 546 be interpreted and the need for a realistic application in today’s development world. Mr. 547 Trudgeon advised that it was the intent of the language to provide encouragement and 548 incentives for developers to work cooperatively with the City to consistently achieve those 549 goals as identified. 550 Chair Boerigter questioned the rationale, as it related to the City’s new Zoning Code in 551 not regulating uses, but regulating function and form for buildings; and how that related to 552 sustainable jobs. 553 Community Development Director Trudgeon responded that this document was 554 attempting to integrate the mitigation efforts of the AUAR that was open to interpretation 555 on enforcement, while incorporating and reiterating that language, without going into too 556 much detail. Mr. Trudgeon requested that Chair Boerigter further explain his connection 557 with the Regulating Map. 558 Chair Boerigter opined that the Regulating Map and those uses allowed, along with other 559 City Code; and questioned how that related to the aspirations in the original Business 560 Park Master Plan. 561 Mr. Trudgeon responded that, in some respects the two were similar, while subject to 562 interpretation. Mr. Trudgeon noted that the Regulating Plan didn’t talk about uses or 563 family sustainable jobs; however, it did talk about street presence and walkabilty. Mr. 564 Trudgeon recognized that it was unfortunate that the provisions were not all incorporated 565 into one document; however, he o pined that this was not the appropriate tool for all goals 566 to be identified. 567 City Planner Paschke noted that the Twin Lakes Master Plan was not a specific use plan, 568 but provided for general uses; and opined that a byproduct of the Twin Lakes Master 569 Plan was the Urban Design Principles that were updated in approximately 2007 and 570 adopted by the City Council, thus becoming the guideline for development in the Twin 571 Lakes Redevelopment Area. Since then, Mr. Paschke advised that the Regulating Plan 572 had been predicated off both of those documents, with its original goals, concepts, 573 objectives, and criteria carried forward into one standard document, including attempting 574 to incorporate AUAR standards related to zoning and land use, while achieving additional 575 separation to be consistent with the AUAR. 576 Member Boguszewski opined that the Master Plan was aspirational and contained long- 577 term goals; while this ordinance attempted to elevate the force of the Master Plan to an 578 ordinance level by inference. Member Boguszewski questioned if the language belonged 579 in the ordinance at all, or whether it should be softened to state “as appropriate” or 580 included in concordance with the AUAR so as not mandated, but remaining as a guiding 581 document (Line 344, paragraph E). Member Boguszewski suggested that the language 582 either be eliminated or softened to identify the aspirations, but not mandate that certain 583 criteria “shall” be carried out. 584 Mr. Trudgeon concurred that this was a fair point; and clarified that it was not the intent to 585 further confuse the issue by mandating anything; and suggested that the language could 586 be softened further to avoid such an implication. 587 While not being familiar with the 2001 Business Park Master Plan, Member Boguszewski 588 opined that such softening of the language would avoid any conflict with the Regulating 589 Map. 590 Member Wozniak concurred with the recommendation of Member Boguszewski; and 591 noted that this would also address previous comments from developers about not putting 592 additional hoops in the way of their development proposals. Member Wozniak stated that 593