Um, we went over the budget, which is a big heavy thing that we're working on right now. That's a big issue. Um, one of the issues that we are trying to resolve is some of the fees that residents have to pay.

So again, tonight the planning commission is holding a public hearing about the possibility of adopting at the city council considering adopting a ordinance related to short-term rentals.

I would like our neighborhood to remain residential. I don't. So, I don't have a problem if people want to rent out their property to a couple people or whatever, but the people who are renting need to respect our neighborhood.

The first one is that on Lake in specifically or any lake within uh East Bethl, I don't think short-term rental should be allowed at all. There are many cities and lakes that don't allow it because when you live on the lake... it's a different set of circumstances.

I think there should be like a subdivision for Lake or or for the Lakes area. It sounds like maybe IUP's across the board. If you're going to have a short-term rental in the Lakes area, you have to come and you need to get an IUP. Period.

So, I mean, I I I think spending more time on it is, you know, certainly something absolutely you can do um and and probably well worth it. However, try to keep things simple at the end of the day from an enforcement standpoint um is is really what I would encourage any ordinance to be um you know practical and and uh I'm not saying it shouldn't be but let's see um here we have your Lake district map's not populating very well. Um and and so the question might be try to make it simple is anything that's within the Lake zoning would be by interim use permit.

I have a recommendation which is we've covered a lot of important points. We have a general idea of what we want to do with this. If we put it off, the more we put it off, the the longer the problems that exist currently, they're going to continue. So, we could create an ordinance. We could pass it. If it doesn't work, we could revisit it and re work it. At least we'd have something that can more quick more quickly address current situations.

application before you this evening is a request from soda storage... for approval of conditional use permitted site pine review for existing self- storage facility facility located at 20563 Aberdine Street.

The existing storage is therefore historically operated as a lawful legal [clears throat] non-conforming use. Um section 46 subdivision 04 however authorizes city council to consider other uses that it determines to be similar um to it uh permitted within the B2 district through a conditional use permit process.

I think you guys are aware that this was an approved project back in August of 2020. The entire site plan was approved. It was approved with four buildings, not just the one that was built, but it was approved exactly how it was shown with the landscaping and the fencing.

So to remove the barb wire just driving here there's numerous places with barb wire. Typically when a site plan is um approved and there's other phases you don't go back and remodify the site plan phases can be done and this I mean my understanding is it was approved as a site plan and one building was going to be built multiple other ones going to work were going to be built later and there was never a timeline on that either.

I don't understand the lighting like the lighting that that the city wants is going to be less lighting in that area which you know we have breakins we have math addicts trying to live in units. I mean lighting is good for that area. I mean the hockey rink's not really lit up very well actually.

It just seems to me that you know both sides here have kind of come out of the gate with with something attitude and um maybe you don't feel so, but I kind of felt that that you know you're saying that that we were on the builder at least we've complied with everything we can or could or did and Erica is saying you didn't and I just don't feel and we don't want to be adversarial because we want to we want to support business.