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AttachmentE EJ14,2014CCM 1 XTRACT FROM THE ULYITY OUNCIL INUTES 13. Business Items (Action Items) 2 a.Request by the Community Development Department for a Text Amendment to 3 the Commercial and Mixed Use Districts Section of the Zoning Ordinance, 4 Specifically Table 1005-1 regarding Residential, Civic and Institutional Uses 5 6 City Planner Thomas Paschke briefly reviewed this request of text amendments 7 recommended by staff, and as detailed in the RCA dated July 14, 2014. At the 8 request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Paschke displayed Table 1005-1 and highlighted proposed 9 amendments. 10 Based on her personal review, Councilmember McGehee questioned why student 11 housing was proposed as a permitted use in Community Business (CB) and Regional 12 Business-1 (RB-1) and -2 (RB-2) Districts, but not post-secondary colleges. 13 Councilmember McGehee opined that previous discussions were specific to office 14 based colleges or secondary schools, but not actual campuses in those districts. 15 Also, under the live-work units in RB-1 and RB-2 Districts, Councilmember 16 McGehee opined that those would not be suitable for student housing. 17 Mayor Roe clarified that those permitted uses were not changed from the current use 18 table, but only added as permitted uses in the CB Districts. 19 Mr. Paschke further clarified that this was what was approved with the recent 20 University of Northwestern land use application, moving from dormitory to student 21 housing, and permitted in CB, RB-1 and RB-2 Districts, and Community Mixed Use 22(CMU) Districts as approved conditionally, but not permitted in Neighborhood 23 Business (NB) Districts). 24 Mayor Roe sought further clarification related to the University of Northwestern 25 application and rezoning the former Comfort Inn and Suites to RB to allow dorms as 26 a permitted use, which to him seemed contrary to Mr. Paschke's last statement. 27 City Manager Trudgeon clarified that the change was from "dorms" which were 28 permitted on college campuses, to "student housing." Mr. Trudgeon advised that this 29 had created a conflict with City Code and definition, which still had dorms listed as 30 not permitted. 31 Mr. Paschke concurred, noting that the standards and definitions sections were 32 changed accordingly. 33 In now reviewing this as a whole, Councilmember McGehee stated that she didn't see 34 the point in permitting student housing in business districts; while she had no problem 35 allowing office-based campuses as previously discussed, but not straight-forward 36 student housing in these areas as it is currently shown. Councilmember McGehee 37 opined that she didn?t find it appropriate and found a Conditional Use more feasible 38 than opening student housing to all business areas.