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Mayor Ramsey stated there is nothing wrong with the Planning Commission sending the <br />Council a plan and the Council could modify if they feel it is necessary. <br />Councilmember Wise stated he would like to meet with them. <br />Councilmember Jeffrey stated he agreed if we come to something we can agree on. <br />Without understanding what our direction might be they may come up with something <br />and we could shoot it down. We need to give them something to work on. <br />Councilmember McGlone stated he feels City Council has done a good job with making <br />decisions and he did not see any reason for meeting with the advisory board every time <br />we need information. <br />Councilmember Jeffrey stated he does not disagree but we have bounced this back and <br />forth forever. We have made some tough decisions but we have not made a decision on <br />this. <br />Councilmember Look stated that the attorney for East Bethel talked with Councilmember <br />Dehen on this when Fitzpatrick was our prosecutor. The way East Bethel does this is <br />officers can count the vehicles and make this many go away to take care of the problem. <br />When you start getting to the size of the parking pad, measuring land is difficult — and <br />difficult to prosecute. It needs to be simple to prosecute. This was the direction Council <br />was going with. He stated he is not saying we should not meet with the Planning <br />Commission but we need to be constructive and come up with something. <br />Councilmember Wise felt there needed to be some differences. <br />Councilmember Elvig stated that we have to get to a prosecutable, defendable ordinance. <br />Let's measure it against these goals. Come up with some goals, get ideas from the <br />Planning Commission — and clearly identify what we are trying to get done with this. <br />Mr. Gladhill stated we could not get our arms around what that number should be. What <br />do we start with — we want to know if together we can get to that point. <br />Councilmember Look stated that these people knew what our direction was — they are <br />idea folks — they shoot out ideas to come to solutions but there is no solution on this <br />because we actively disagree on this. He stated he is not against meeting with the <br />Planning Commission — it is his opinion we can give them our ideas and they will push <br />for theirs. Last time they disagreed, we decided to just lay low on it for a while. <br />Councilmember McGlone stated that we have to have a starting point — is there a base <br />number of vehicles — and are we just looking at automobiles or are we looking at trailers, <br />snowmobiles, etc. Where do we start that direction? <br />City Council Work Session — June 30, 2009 <br />Page 12 of 17 <br />