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Special City Council Meeting Thursday,February 20, 2014 Page 20 that a buffer could be created in a different way, seeking park dedication and green space, even in the purple area containing the PIK terminal area. Mayor Roe questioned if two districts were needed, or simply to define uses as conditional where restrictions took place. Councilmember McGehee noted residential uses and building where things made sense, based on past input from developers, brokers, and Mr. Lamb in develop- ment of the regulating map. Councilmember McGehee spoke strongly for hous- ing serving as the best buffer round the park, while not trying to impose some- thing on the market that was not uniformly agreed upon. Mayor Roe pointed out that everything else could be a permitted use there as well as in the CMU, such as a nice corporate headquarters Mr. Paschke questioned how Councilmembers were thinking regarding a buffer, noting that since the regulating plan seemed to be falling out of flavor, it had still provided an additional ten foot buffer to the City as part of any park dedication which would add to the park, and/or pedestrian connections to get to the park, adding another buffer inherent in that. Mr. Paschke noted that, while some could built into the code versus requiring a conditional use, it was not clear to him when the buffer was eliminated with the regulating plan. Mr. Paschke noted that this had served to reduce impacts from one use to another, with current code providing mitigation for those impacts from one use to an adjacent one. Mr. Paschke ques- tioned how this fit with his perception of the City Council's direction to staff to proceed with the current CMU and tweak other areas. Mayor Roe recognized that point, noting that some people thought of buffers as strips of vacant land, while others thought of buffers as less-intensive uses. For purposes of creating appropriate buffers in this case, the Conditional Use ap- proach could make sense, creating conditions that would establish buffers for cer- tain uses when adjacent to certain other uses. Mr. Trudgeon summarized current directive to retain the one CMU District with some uses conditioned around Langton Lake Park; opining that this would pro- vide a good framework moving forward and what was needed for tweaks, which should not prove complicated and get to the point quicker than the various colors. Councilmember McGehee questioned if staff was proposing certain uses allowed across the entire area as a conditional use, or only in the area closest to the lake. Mr. Trudgeon, using retail as an example, if at or over 20,000 square feet, it would require a conditional use, and would go through the process on design, lo- cation and other conditions for the City Council's review. While the City Council