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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 24,2014 Page 9 As noted on the attached Planning Commission meeting minutes, Mr. Trudgeon noted that as part of this improvement, the University was looking to upgrade its public address system, which would be much improved with the ability to provide direction sound adjustments. Five bench handouts, , were included as part of this item, consisting of an e-mail dated March 22, 2014 from Timothy Callaghan (3062 Shorewood Lane); an e- mail dated March 24, 2014 from Brian Humphries, Associate VP of Facility Op- erations and Planning at University of Northwestern forwarding an attached e- mail of the same date from Chris Nelson, Bethel University and resident (at 1678 Lydia Avenue W); a March 24, 2014 Letter from Richard R. Reynolds (resident at 3191 Shorewood Drive, Arden Hills, MN and property owner of 2746 Merrill Street Roseville, MN); an March 24, 2014 e-mail from Timothy Callaghan (3062 Shorewood Drive); and e-mail dated March 24, 2014 from John Huyett (3203 Shorewood Drive). Councilmember McGehee, having received noise complaints over a number of years from residents adjacent to this campus, questioned why this was being con- sidered as a Conditional Use rather than an Interim Use,which she would be more comfortable with, similar to the coffee kiosk approval granted earlier. Coun- cilmember McGehee opined that this would ensure that the public address system was actually updated in a way that it would be directed away from neighbors and onto the campus itself. Specific to the Conditional Use request, Councilmember McGehee opined that the details on candle lights and decibel measurements did not provide her with a sufficient level of comfort; and while she was not opposed to the University having a public address system or lighted fields, she expressed her preference for a timeframe identified to address their location in this highly residential area and impacts to their neighbors. Before responding to other issues raised by Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Trudgeon clarified that the requested Conditional Use was for approval of field lighting for renovated outdoor athletic facilities and not for the public address sys- tem, as the public address system was a legal, nonconforming use under City Code and covered under the campus's Planned Unit Development (PUD), last up- dated in 2007 under their 2003 Long-Range Campus Master Plan, at which time field lighting was among items listed for future implementation as budgets al- lowed; and therefore providing limited ability for the City to control at this point. With that clarification that this request is specific to the field lighting, a permitted use by Conditional Use under City Code provisions,Mr. Trudgeon questioned if it was even possible to rather suggest that as an Interim Use, since this was a sub- stantial investment by the University and for fairly long-term use. Mr. Trudgeon suggested other methods already available in City Code to deal with nuisance vio- lations, with ultimate revocation of the Conditional Use if significant and ongoing violations were found. Having worked with the University for a number of years,