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Special Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, September 17, 2015 Page 5 Member Cunningham sated that this seemed to represent a broad use, including urgent care with 202 extended hours versus a regular clinic open during regular business hours. Therefore, Member 203 Cunningham suggested making it CU knowing that the use would typically be approved, but if a 204 facility with extended hours, CU would allow additional conditions to apply. 205 Mr. Lloyd noted the recent speculative drive-through use coming before the Planning Commission 206 in the recent past, and recognized that without knowing the actual user, a new user could come in 207 if the approval was already in existence; and noted that unless something specific was 208 conditioned in the CU prohibiting that type of use, it may not remain for the long-term as originally 209 intended or permitted. 210 Member Cunningham noted that, by allowing the use through as C, it also addressed changing 211 uses (e.g. from a regular doctor’s office subsequently closing and then open to the potential for 212 an urgent care use with extended hours). 213 Chair Boguszewski suggested making the hours of operation a condition for approval. 214 Mr. Bilotta noted that there was no current definition for “urgent care,” and if that was the issue, 215 suggested providing that definition versus putting in restrictions if that was the intent of the 216 Commission. Mr. Bilotta noted that this use was coming into a prominence not seen before, and 217 as an example used the current urgent care on County Road B-2 operating as an office while the 218 recently constructed urgent care in Vadnais Heights operating totally differently. 219 Chair Boguszewski asked if having a separate line use for “urgent care/after hours care” would 220 include free-standing emergency care uses as well. 221 Mr. Paschke noted consideration being given to extended hours for retail uses and how best to 222 control those; and questioned if that that could or should also apply in this scenario. Also, Mr. 223 Paschke noted that the Twin Lakes Medical facility at Fairview Avenue and County Road C 224 already had an urgent care; and as is currently stands, would therefore apply to CMU and NB 225 designated zoning districts as a P use, which could perhaps carry through for that district as well. 226 Chair Boguszewski questioned if this applied to CMU-1, would it affect the existing Twin Lakes 227 Medical facility by default. 228 Mr. Lloyd noted the proposal was to bring those designations out in the land use table, with 229 recommendations from Member Stellmach made at the last meeting to rephrase text in Section f 230 (Table of Allowed Uses), Items 6. a, b, and c (page 16 of 18 in RPCA Attachment C) to limit 231 business hours as applicable and with some consistency. 232 From the City Council’s past discussions, Mr. Bilotta noted considerations of operations between 233 the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and what that meant to specific businesses. For example, 234 Mr. Bilotta questioned if that referred to customers only coming and going, or if it was a software 235 company whose employees worked late or early morning hours, how would it affect them. 236 Therefore, Mr. Bilotta advised that staff had proposed the text as presented on page 16 of the 237 RPCA to address those extended hour activities that would be disruptive and those that may not 238 be disruptive. 239 Chair Boguszewski suggested concurrence by the Commission with the City Council and staff on 240 those differentials. 241 Member Bull spoke to bakery uses and their employees and/or customers as another example, 242 with many of their employees coming in at 4:00 a.m. or before to start baking and prepare for a 243 6:00 a.m. opening to customers. Member Bull questioned if that would be a P use in a CUM-1 244 designation. 245 Mr. Bilotta suggested making that more in line with other text related to customers. 246 As with other businesses of a similar nature, Mr. Paschke noted the difficulty in regulating what 247 occurs inside in the building no matter their use, if not doing external business during all the hours 248 they’re in the building. 249