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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Page 12 inadvertently impose obligations on schools or parks for placement in 564 inappropriate locations, or reduction or removal of portable restroom facilities in 565 their entirety, creating more nuisance related issues for adjacent residential 566 property owners. 567 Member Gisselquist concurred. 568 From a planning perspective, Mr. Paschke opined that the standards legitimize 569 that those facilities are allowed to be there, something that was not allowed 570 today; and allowing regulation of problem areas, rather than for staff to simply 571 say the use is prohibited and needs to be removed. 572 With the concurrence of Member Gisselquist, Vice Chair Boerigter recognized 573 staff’s rationale; however, he questioned if the proposed standards were the right 574 standards; noting that parks and school districts were not flush with cash and if 575 the City determined that in order to have the units in place, they had to follow 576 certain restrictive standards, they could just eliminate them completely or incur 577 additional expenses. 578 Member Best expressed support for the screening, while recognizing that there 579 may be additional expense that may result in unintended consequences. 580 Member Wozniak reiterated his support for staff deviations in solar energy 581 system design and placement. Member Wozniak offered no concrete standards 582 for application of administrative deviations, other than that the size of the 583 systems be restricted to on-site operations and not large enough to sell power 584 back to the grid. 585 At the request of Vice Chair Boerigter, Mr. Paschke understood both positions on 586 the solar energy issues; recognizing the need for regulations and flexibility. 587 Vice Chair Boerigter advised the need to develop standards for any deviations; 588 that even though seeking positive environmental impacts, it was necessary not to 589 allow solar energy systems in a totally unfettered manner, when everything else 590 was regulated. 591 Member Gisselquist noted the lack of such standards for administrative 592 deviations at this time, and if those developments were not in place, of his 593 inability to support such an open-ended approval without more information. 594 MOTION 595 Member Wozniak moved to RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL 596 APPROVAL of the DRAFT PROPERTY PERFORMANCE STANDARDS 597 ordinance as presented, and as detailed in the Request for Planning 598 Commission Action dated November 17, 2010; amended as follows: 599 Provision in the Solar Energy System section, line 1205, allowing  600 administrative deviation and approval of solar energy systems and their 601 design and placement, with some limitations as discussed. 602 Vice Chair Boerigter declared the motion failed due to lack of a second. 603 MOTION 604 Member Cook moved, seconded by Member Gisselquist to RECOMMEND 605 TO THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL of the DRAFT PROPERTY 606 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ordinance as presented, and as detailed in 607 the Request for Planning Commission Action dated November 17, 2010; 608 amended as follows: 609 Subject to editorial, formatting and typographical comments as  610 discussed. 611 Further discussion ensued related to line 1034, portable restroom facilities, 612 related to their placement and screening; involvement of Parks and Recreation 613