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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 9, 2014 Page 9 9. General Ordinances for Adoption a. Consider Amending City Code Chapter 303: Amusement Devices: Areas and Game Rooms At the request of Mayor Roe, Finance Director Chris Miller briefly reviewed this request as detailed in the RCA dated June 9, 2014. Mr. Miller advised that this code amendment had come up at the request of Chuck-E-Cheese, as they were working through the process to locate a new facili- ty in Roseville in the Sports Authority building at 1750 Highway 36 Service Drive with an addition to the building on the south. Mr. Miller advised that, in- ternal staff discussions with the Police Department, Planning Department and other City staff, the original rationale for separation was no longer necessary with the updated Zoning Code that would be sufficient to regulate that separation. Specific to this, Mr. Miller advised that a Conditional Use (CU) would have typi- cally been put in place providing another layer of control to address distance re- quirements; however, City Planners did not feel a CU was necessary as long as the proposal was consistent with zoning as a regulating tool. Therefore, Mr. Mil- ler advised that the proposal was to amend two sections of Code 303, as indicated in the RCA; and a revised ordinance (Attachment A) as indicated. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, City Manager Trudgeon was unsure why the terminology "video arcade" was specifically mentioned in the CU lan- guage; and if someone applied after this change, a pool hall request that may be across from a school would still need a license for gaming devices with City Council approval. Councilmember Etten questioned if the City gained more control by leaving the CU process in place; with Mr. Trudgeon responding that the CU allowed particu- lars for the use, and it would be reasonable to keep it if the City Council had con- cerns in retaining controls allowed by a CU. Mayor Roe opined that it didn't make sense from a code writing point of view to have the CU included in licensing code with no reference to it in zoning code. Mayor Roe suggested that, if the CU requirement for this type of use and amend- ment of the Table of Uses in zoning code was not approved tonight, it may make more sense on a short-term basis to change the first part of Section 3 to facilitate timing for this applicant, and leave Item B in code for now and move to correct that section of code later. Mr. Trudgeon clarified that this would essentially take out the distance require- ment and leave approval by a CU permitting process for now to facilitate the ap- plicant; removing the distance requirement completely.