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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 9, 2014 Page 27 Development Department, as detailed in the RCA dated June 9, 2014. Mr. Paschke clarified that approval of the request would address four related actions: 1) Change the definition from"dormitory"to "student housing;" 2) Determine how and where student housing is allowed as a permitted or condi- tioned use in Community Business and Regional Business Districts; 3) Identify the standards or requirements pertaining to re-sue of a building or new construction in those districts; and 4) Support proposed changes to existing housing types in Neighborhood Business and Community Mixed Use Districts. Councilmember Willmus discussed parking requirements (Section 1010.12.E) for student housing and how they differed for hotel parking requirements as to the number of stalls; the lodging threshold being used compared to student housing thresholds; how to address overflow parking in the neighborhood as a result of this student housing; and whether Northwestern had an overall parking plan to address those issues. Mr. Paschke responded that residential parking for multi-family building parking was determined by the number of bedrooms and visitor stalls calculated on the number of units; and for lodging uses, the code talks about the number of overall rooms or units and the number of customers and/or employees. City Manager Trudgeon advised that the site had 126 existing stalls, and through written agreement with Pippins, 80 were for hotel use, or one stall per room, and 44 stalls reserved for the restaurant; with the student housing(lodging)use requir- ing 86 spaces and 37 for the restaurant for a total of 123 stalls. Since they now have 126, with a multi-family standard for 79 units for 99 spaces for housing and 37 for the restaurant for a total of 136 stalls overall, Mr. Trudgeon noted they would be 10 stalls short of using a multi-family calculation or creating a new standard. However, Mr. Trudgeon stated that he thought Northwestern had plans to limit parking on the site. Mayor Roe noted the need to address this within current parking standards, and if deemed necessary a future direction could be given to staff to pursue future con- siderations on parking calculations. In Section 12010.12.E.b, Councilmember McGehee noted the Sienna Green hous- ing that provided for no sprinkler system or ADA requirements, and stated that she did not want to support any re-use that would not require meeting those re- quirements. Councilmember Etten noted that, permitted use versus not permitted or condition- al, it made sense to make it a conditional use, given the lower impact to the neighborhood in this location. However, if the same situation were being consid- ered on the east side of Snelling Avenue, with a higher impact to residential prop-