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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 6, 2019 Page 11 Nays: None. c. Consideration of Ordinances Amending the City Code and Centre Pointe Planned Unit Development No. 1177 (PROJ43) Community Development Director Janice Gundlach briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related attachments dated May 6, 2019. Mayor Roe stated he was looking at the existing Zoning Code in some of the oth- er Commercial Districts and it appears that the Health Club Fitness Center is largely permitted in the Commercial Districts, except that it is Conditional in the Neighborhood Business Districts. Councilmember Etten noted under the definition for Laboratory or Research De- velopment or Testing the strikeout portion on the first part of that on page 3 of 4 of the RCA, lines 53-57, the middle of 53 "...development or controlled produc- tion of high technology electronic, industrial, or scientific products or commodi- ties for sale..." that part has been taken out which very much changes the defini- tion. He did not know if staff was intending to pull out that limited production piece or not. Ms. Gundlach stated she did not know the origination of why certain language was stricken from this definition and how this new definition materialized. She stated if the Council wanted to keep some of that existing language, staff can do that and provide some follow up at the next meeting. Councilmember Etten stated he would be open to Council discussion on this. He did not mind and understood some of the purpose of the new wording including the last portion of the sentence. If he were revising this, he would put the word "development" back into the list of"equipped for medical, scientific, or techno- logical research, experiments, and/or testing..." and then he would add in the sec- ond sentence that takes in that production piece. A second sentence would start "these may include controlled production of high technology electronic, industri- al, or scientific products or commodities for sale." Councilmember Etten stated his concern is that by eliminating some of the differ- ent Med-Tech companies that are certainly populating the area and not allowing some of that limited production might create a problem for a high-quality compa- ny that would not have impacts on the neighborhood but would have impacts on what could be done there. Mayor Roe questioned from his perspective, do experiments and testing cover the type of limited production the City is talking about? His concern is, he thought the City wanted to be unambiguous about what sort of production might be allowed. Also, elsewhere in the City Code some of the definitions regarding limited pro- duction as a use that is allowed in certain Districts. He thought the intention is that