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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 23, 2018 Page 4 Councilmember Etten commented that change is the thing that is most difficult for residents. When people cut down trees and start building something, people be- come concerned and upset. The Council has to do whatever can be done to in- form people and be as upfront as possible. Mayor Roe noted that the case at the last PC meeting was about additional height on a building. Maybe a part of the presentation to start off the hearing needs to be a more detailed description of next steps in the process. That might not be up to the PC alone,but it may be a joint effort between the PC and the staff. City Manager Trudgeon commented on notification of residents. Certainly, staff will be expanding notification earlier in the process when there is overlap with the application and a text amendment. The Code may have to be cleaned up as well to clarify the process. Mayor Roe noted that there is a list of uses in the tables. At some point, there is going to be innovation or something new that comes along, and the City will have to respond to it—like mother-in-law apartments in the past. Member Sparby asked about how the Council sees the PUDs moving forward with respect to the underlying zoning. Mayor Roe stated PUDs were re-introduced into the Code a couple years ago. There are a number of older, pre-existing PUDs, and they were all written as con- tracts at the time and adopted as ordinances. Regarding Centre Point, it was the zoning issue. There was some confusion at the time of the zoning code update re- garding whether the Office/Business Park would supersede or augment the PUD. Not everyone understood the process, himself included. It is only within the last couple years that it has become clearer, dealing with applications on the Centre Point site, and getting advice from the attorney. The actual zoning of the site is the PUD, which means any changes have to be changes to the PUD, unless there is a way to cancel the PUD. He is not sure how easy that is to do, because it was a contract with a particular developer, and it stays with the site. There may be some complicated situations on these PUDs going forward. Councilmember Etten stated three different proposals have come forward for that site: the storage unit, Northwestern University, and the hotel. For the storage and Northwestern, the Council looked at the use chart and said those uses are not in- cluded. The hotel was the only permitted use on the list. He agrees the use table needs to be updated, and that process has begun. The Council looks forward to completing that process, understanding that it is a contract and thus is the law of that piece of land. The Council made a decision not to replace the PUD, but ra- ther to amend the PUD, because it liked some of the design standards like green space and parking.