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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 7, 2019 Page 7 Councilmember Etten asked what some of the issues were that have been brought forward. Mr. Paschke stated it was his understanding, as it relates to Roseville Lutheran, that the windows need to be egress windows and the spaces being utilized for the housing, lodging, the overnight stay for the homeless are not designed for that type of use under the Building or Fire Codes. There are a number of things that would have to be reviewed and looked at to decide whether or not improvements would need to be made to support those uses to being permitted similar to what Maplewood has done as it relates to their process. Modifications were made to the church there in order for them to get a separate and distinct Certificate of Oc- cupancy supporting that use, going through the Conditional Use process. He ex- plained there are some things that can be done but it would require time and addi- tional money. The Interim Use process was, at least in the short term, the best way to at least support the churches moving forward with the City's understand- ing that the churches have the beds and overnight shelter. Staff did talk about ways to modify the Code to support this in the future but that takes time as well. Mayor Roe stated as a follow up, anything that might need to be done as a modi- fication to the building, even with the Interim Use approval to cover the use on the zoning side of things, there still could be things that need to be done as through the building process. Mr. Paschke answered that from an Interim Use perspective, no. Mayor Roe stated if there is an Interim Use and the churches want to go ahead in February and provide shelter for people, are there modifications that need to be made. Mr. Paschke indicated there were not as far as he was aware. He thought the issue would be if the churches wanted these to be permanent uses. Then there becomes a conflict with the use not being consistent with the Certificate of Occupancy. Mayor Roe stated related to process, if the City has gone through an Interim Use process to the point of consideration by the City Council, and if the fee is sup- posed to have a nexus with the cost to process the application, the City is at the point where it has done all of the things to process the application that the fee is supposed to cover. So, if a new process is started, he asked if there would be an- other fee or would the City initiate it and not charge another fee for a Zoning Text Amendment. He indicated he would like some guidance in regard to precedence of equal treatment of equal applicants and whether there is a concern of waiving the fee in this case, that there might be an issue of unequal treatment of appli- cants.