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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 14, 2014 Page 13 es that could present a problem for the City and/or those adjacent neighborhoods. Councilmember McGehee concurred with Mayor Roe's questions regarding tax exempt clubs, opining that she saw no reason to exempt anything in particular. Councilmember Laliberte questioned if there were any bowling alleys that didn't serve food and/or alcohol that would not be covered elsewhere in code or statute. Mayor Roe suggested one point to remember is that this is under the licensing section of City Code, and a fee would be paid to have video games, etc. in a facili- ty, which had already come up once with a retail establishment seeking such a li- cense. Therefore, Mayor Roe stated that his struggle was with the need for regu- lation for this sub-use versus requirements for uses in the Zoning Code. Mayor Roe stated that his tendency was to let the Zoning Code cover these things and address carnivals or roving circuses through a separate means or prohibit them en- tirely. Mayor Roe opined that this seemed outdated and to be covered in other parts of City Code. Councilmember Willmus opined that the language could be cleaned up, but he al- so considered it not necessarily a bad thing for amusement devices to go through a Conditional Use process; and he would support that if it came before the City Council. Councilmember Willmus opined that some situations and sites were unique enough that the City may want to retain that check with the City Council and neighbors; and expressed his support for Conditional Use approval, but moved into the Zoning Code as Item C as suggested in the RCA, page 3, lines 94- 95. However, Councilmember Willmus stated that he agreed with Mayor Roe and Councilmember McGehee that some items spelled out in Section 303.08 (page 2 of the RCA) needed to be re-evaluated. Councilmember Etten concurred with the comments of Councilmember Willmus, supporting amusement devices as a Conditional Use under the City's Zoning Code. With one such application currently before staff, Mr. Billota suggested that one additional area for staff review would suggest whether or not to tighten up the ex- emption for restaurants. Mr. Bilotta noted that someone could attempt to bypass this provision for regulation by throwing frozen pizzas in as an offering to cir- cumvent it. Mayor Roe clarified that his intent was not to have no regulation whatsoever, par- ticularly those things that may have yet to be considered, but to simply clean up language to retain things needing licensed under licensing regulations, such as in- surance requirements, etc.,but to move other applicable items under consideration through a Conditional Use process.