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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 20, 2013 Page 2 ments (9.c);" "Discuss Limited Processing and Production in the Regional Business Dis- trict(14.a);" and"Discuss Twin Lakes Zoning Code (14.c)." As most of these items seemed to be of an internal nature, Councilmember McGehee asked that they be considered as part of an underlying policy discussion by the City Council on their role in land use issues; and to consider their intercession on some of those land use issues that were being continually delegated to the Planning staff for ad- ministrative action, and creating deliberate ambiguous decision-making in the hands of staff versus the City Council. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Interim City Manager Trudgeon confirmed that there should be time on the June 3, 2013, meeting agenda to accommodate these items. If the concern was for a larger discussion, Councilmember Laliberte stated that she could support that; and asked that the June 3 meeting be reserved for discussion in work session format. Mr. Trudgeon advised that a number of items had been deferred or tabled recently that would be coming forward at meetings in the near future; however, from staff's perspec- tive, including these items for discussion at the meeting should not prove problematic. Mr. Trudgeon clarified that the Twin Lakes Zoning Code discussion was intended as a multi-meeting discussion. Mr. Trudgeon noted that staff would like to get the process started, including open houses, for the potential of adding an additional Business District Zoning designation initiated in the near future that could facilitate an actual decision coming later in July of 2013,but of course would be at the direction of the City Council. Councilmember McGehee agreed that the June 3 meeting should be more of a work ses- sion; and referenced a letter in the agenda packet from the City Attorney regarding a po- tential conflict between Community Business and Regional Business Zoning Districts. Mayor Roe cautioned not to overload the June 3 meeting agenda. Mr. Trudgeon noted that the Planning Department had other text amendments in process, eight of which would be coming before the Planning Commission at their June meeting, one of which was the infamous "garage door" design standard. Mr. Trudgeon noted that these proposed text amendments had been presented to the City Council in a preliminary form for general discussion purposes at their February and March of 2013 meetings; but advised that staff was open to additional discussion. Roll Call Ayes: Willmus; Laliberte; McGehee; and Roe. Nays: None.