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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 7, 2019 Page 11 with from a statutory point of view, but it should not be this hard to eliminate the fee. He would like to know how other cities are doing this. Mayor Roe thought staff could get the City Council more information on what other cities are doing. He thought the Council would like to have this brought back, noting this would be specific to this type of use and this type of district, In- terim Use approval. The precedent would be whatever the City sets as justifica- tion for reducing or waiving a fee. The City has to be ready to apply to the next application going forward. Councilmember Etten stated he would be willing to look at this further and asked staff to look at what the costs were on this item and bring that information for- ward to the Council for further discussion as well. Councilmember Willmus stated one of the things the Council has indicated to work towards is to try to find some common ground and change this to a permit- ted use within the Institutional Zone Districts. One of the things that will be in play in the future is the need for the Interim Use Permit to go away by the City taking action to make this a permitted use. He thought the City should look at the fee at that point, which is the nexus. City Attorney Gaughan stated maybe the City could make the payment of this fee due on the expiration of the five-year Interim Use period, waivable if the Interim Use becomes moot by operation of subsequent zoning change. Councilmember Willmus wondered if the City would have to do that for all of the Interim Uses that come before the City. City Attorney Gaughan thought the nexus there is that the Council has openly de- liberated its intentions to pursue a potential amendment of zoning to make this In- terim Use not necessary. If there is a future case similar to that, it might be an ap- propriate precedent. But for future cases where the Council has not openly delib- erated making an Interim Use application obsolete, then there is no need for it. Also, it is recognizing the fee has been imposed but not due until the end of the five-year period. Mayor Roe stated within the last few years, the City has approved an Interim Use and then subsequently made a zoning change that made it moot. It was not this type of use so there is that precedent. He wanted to make sure the Council thinks through this before a decision is made on how this can be done. Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 7:20 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 7:25 p.m.