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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 22, 2018 Page 16 Councilmember Willmus asked what the City currently has in place for seating requirements for a sit-down restaurant. Mr. Paschke stated all of the City restaurants are based on seats, which is one space for every three seats. Councilmember Etten stated one of the items the Planning Commission had a concern with was counting outdoor seating or not and when this states one space for every four seats in a tap room tasting room, would that include any outdoor seating as part of the business. Mr. Paschke stated for this item it does not because that was an item the Planning Commission rejected as part of what staff was a proponent of. Staff believes that moving forward, even with the current restaurant designs, there is probably a need to look at that and to determine whether or not there needs to be an increase in parking because there are more outdoor seating areas and that does create, during six or months during the year, additional pressure on parking. This item is com- ing before the Council as a Code modification. Staff felt that was an appropriate time to introduce a parking requirement for patios, so it was in the recommenda- tion initially,but it was recommended that be removed. Councilmember Etten stated on the topic of cocktail rooms, he thought the City should match the State Statutes to clarify what the City is doing. He noted in Ta- ble 1006-1, Section 5, brewery is listed as conditional and he wondered if that was not permitted before in the Zoning code or was it not a use at all before. Mr. Paschke stated none of the items were previous uses in the City Zoning Code. Councilmember Etten stated looking at Table 1005-1, Section 3, under neighbor- hood business,brew pub was originally conditional and moved to permitted. Mr. Paschke believed in September the recommendation was not permitted for microbrewery. Mayor Roe thought when it came to the Planning Commission, it was not permit- ted in neighborhood business and the Planning Commission changed it. Mr. Paschke stated that was correct. He thought brew pub was permitted because that is looked at in terms of a restaurant. Mayor Roe stated on Table 4 of the same section, he was looking at CMU2 versus CMU1 and the other categories and why these various uses might be conditional or permitted in CMU1, which is the least intense, most restrictive, but not in CMU2.