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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 13, 2012 Page 22 Councilmember Willmus, specifically addressing line 115, admitted his struggle when some of these items came before the City Council, questioning if they were actually"nuances," rather than"nuisances." Community Development Director Trudgeon advised that staff had been address- ing in the office today the long-overdue need for all of the City's existing nui- sance codes to be reviewed, since the community standards and resources in- volved had changed. However, while not necessarily requiring additional finan- cial resources, Mr. Trudgeon noted that it did require reallocating staff resources from another duty, and therefore became hard to address. If necessary, Mr. Trudgeon advised that staff could be reallocated by delaying processing of per- mits; however, he noted that many of the nitpicky issues were those that staff re- ceived the most calls on from citizens and having a variety of opinions (e.g. RV's, chickens, cars, garbage cans, bees, etc.) and may require a significant amount of community dialogue with the City Council to come to a compromise solution. Mr. Trudgeon noted that it that dialogue would put a resource pinch on staff and City Council time, and necessitated recognizing that beforehand. Mayor Roe, in addressing resource and City Council meeting time, as well as the need for community input, suggested this may be a good task force item for citi- zen involvement as well as some of the stakeholders; with their work product thoroughly vetted before reaching the City Council level. Mayor Roe suggested that the short-term strategy be to review the issues and establish a process, with the long-term goal to develop and adopt a revised code. Councilmember McGehee suggested the need to get task force processes started as stand-alone entities consisting of only citizens, not staff. Councilmember McGehee opined that task forces needed to be set up, recognizing that citizens were capable of reviewing existing codes, appointing their own chairperson, and providing a recommendation to the City Council without staff involvement. Mr. Trudgeon opined that this was a long overdue discussion; and further opined that things couldn't continue to be added to the list; however, he noted that if the issue went forward to a task force, there would be additional meetings, research and discussions realistically required of staff and would require something else dropping off the list. Mayor Roe opined that there would be staff time required; and suggested that the process be initiated, but once brought forward for further discussion, may require pushing it out further depending on available resources. Related to line 135, Police Chief Mathwig noted that with development of addi- tional retail at Twin Lakes, additional resources would be required.