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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 27, 2018 Page 4 ness districts and then goes on to discuss specific design criteria for drive-through facilities. The ordinance amendment talks about the speaker box and not being a nuisance to abutting residential zoned properties and it talks about the one hun- dred feet from existing residentially zoned properties. He stated that back in the RCA,pages 3-4, there is a much longer list of standards for a conditional use for a drive-through facility that is used in other zones. He wondered if there was a rea- son why they would not have the entire list as part of this updated or change ordi- nance. Mr. Lloyd stated there was not and the proposal would not be to eliminate those other parameters. The ordinance is abridged to show only the parts being amend- ed. Councilmember Etten wanted to be sure the full text of conditions a-f would be included in the ordinance. Mayor Roe stated to be correct, those items are in the Code right now and the standards apply to drive-throughs in all zones and then adding them as condition- al uses in the neighborhood district. Mr. Lloyd indicated that was correct. Councilmember McGehee explained the Neighborhood Business zoning district covers fourteen different areas throughout the City and they are all in residential areas. Although she supports Mudslingers and the drive-through in that particular location, it does not mean she would support a drive-through elsewhere in the city. Therefore, she did not feel prepared to act on something that spreads across all fourteen of these Neighborhood Business areas. She noted the neighborhood where Mudslingers is located is a perfect spot because it is on and off the freeway and is a busy intersection anyway. She supports a drive-through there. Coun- cilmember McGehee indicated she looked at the MN Statutes, which govern them, and also in the League of Minnesota Cities and there is no particular time limit established for interim use permits so the City has arbitrarily come up with a three- and a five-year limit. She wondered if it is not better practice to handle this particular case, which is unique and the City has done their due diligence by do- ing an interim that works. She stated because Mudslingers was looking for a ten- year lease, she would be inclined to approve a guarantee of a renewal, absent any complaints in the next five years or a ten-year interim use barring they decide to come up with a different idea or something else happens. Then we do not have a drive-through there going forward for a completely different use that we may not want there. Also, then this drive through use would not be approved across all of the City. Councilmember McGehee commented if the Council does decide to do the text amendment, then she thought they needed to look carefully where all of these