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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 7,2014 Page 21 At the request of Mayor Roe,he sought consensus from Councilmembers if there was any objection to them proceeding to the next step. Mr. Paschke noted that food trucks and several other items would become permit- ted uses under the proposed text amendment and standards for uses over 40,000 square feet based on previous City Council direction, and would be brought be- fore the Planning Commission at their June 2014 meeting. Mr. Trudgeon recapped the proposed text amendments requiring a Conditional Use for any retail use larger than 40,000 square feet adjacent to a park or single- family residential, as more clearly defined; with other uses depending on best practices that require buffers of a certain amount of feet, limiting the height of the building, and other restrictions unless it went through the Conditional Use pro- cess. Councilmember McGehee expressed her strong issues with the PIK Terminal site and how it hugs such a large portion of Langton Lake Park; opining that it should have a considerable buffer to protect the park environmentally and its purpose be- ing. Depending on what was done with the setback, Councilmember Willmus opined that the lake acted as a natural buffer, and should provide the ultimate footage de- sired, whether additional controls were required or not; and from his perspective it diminished the need for those additional controls to some extent. Mayor Roe agreed that the increased setback covered the notion of a buffer and landscape standards, along with the area's characteristics and stormwater man- agement requirements provided additional buffers. If individual Councilmembers felt additional specifics were needed, Mayor Roe suggested they feed that input into the public hearing process. Councilmember Willmus expressed his interest in hearing more input about a re- duced impervious surface of 80%to retain 20% green space; and whether or not it had any impact on market values in the area. Mayor Roe opined that such testimony may come forward at the public hearing. Mr. Paschke reviewed the area with a displayed map and how adjacent residential properties interacted with developable parcels and buffers provided based on cer- tain uses allowed under a Conditional Use for retail uses over 40,000 square feet, and otherwise permitted. Councilmembers offered no objection to that scenario. b. Frozen Water Lines