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Planning Commission Special Meeting Minutes Excerpt January 26, 2012 Page 4 of S given sufficient opportunity to review such change before the Planning Commission is asked to reach a decision. Beyond that, Commissioner Rennie said that he has the same concern he expressed at the December 15, 2011 meeting. Although some Commissioners may have personal experience to draw upon to help guide a decision, he said, the Planning Commission simply doesn't have the information it needs, formatted in such a way that they can understand it, to know whether a recommendation makes sense. He described the information presented as fractionalized, resulting in being able to see something substantially less than the whole picture in terms of current zoning, the properties affected and what's allowed. He said that part of the Planning Commission's job is to consider this recommendation in the context of the General Plan, but it doesn't help to know that a General Plan Advisory Committee may have considered it a good idea and expect the Planning Commission to rubber -stamp that opinion. He also said that, lacking personal experience in the matter, he doesn't even feel he has sufficient information to make a reasonable decision. He said that he's frustrated both in being asked to consider this proposal in light of the incomplete information and also in the wav it came back to the Planning Commission. He said that he doesn't know whether he'd support the proposal or not; he simply doesn't have enough information. Vice ChairAbero said that her primary concern is removing Commercial Recreation and Entertainment Activities as Conditionally Permitted Uses in a very large area. Despite the AU overlay, the uses would be gone from a substantial number of properties where they were previously Conditionally Permitted Uses. With the economy in the shape it's in and because we don't know what the future will bring, she questioned the idea of limiting the City's growth in that way. She said the next great thing may be recreation. For those reasons, she's concerned about excluding a number of properties from being able to have Commercial Recreation and Entertainment Activities as Conditionally Permitted Uses. Assistant City Attorney Pio Roda said that the Planning Commission's previous recommendations will be fonvarded to the City Council and consolidated with tonight's comments. At its December 15, 2011 meeting, he summarized, the Planning Commission voted (5 -2) to recommend that the City Council have staff look at a nuanced approach that would not entirely eliminate Commercial Recreation and Entertainment Activities as Conditionally Permitted Uses in Industrial Zones IG, IL and IP. Staff went with that suggestion, and came back with the revised recommendation presented tonight, on the basis of the parameters provided and staff analysis. Assistant City Attorney Pio Roda also said that although the revised proposal is less restrictive than the one presented at the December 15, 2011 Planning Commission meeting, the properties affected are the same. Commissioner Rennie said that he was leaning in the same direction as Commissioner Dlugosh, who proposed sending a "no" recommendation to the City Council. He also said that while he understands the General Plan concerns, without General Plan analysis included in the information provided, he doesn't know how to make the assessments or whether what's being proposed makes good planning sense. In terms of the "nuanced" approach, the revised proposal doesn't reflect some of the considerations he had in mind, such as appropriate corridors and where it makes sense. Although an area of properties with an AU designation has been provided, there's no information about why the Conditionally Permitted Uses being discussed make sense in those areas but not in other IL, IP and IG Districts. Other approaches to a solution that warrant consideration, as Commissioner Rennie said he had mentioned during the December 15, 2011 discussion, might be to limit the number of Commercial Recreation and Entertainment Activities awarded Conditional Use Permits in IL, IP and IG Districts, or establishing caps on total square footage devoted to either such use in each district. If all those avenues were explored, Commissioner Rennie said, we might come to the