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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, March 22,2004 7:00 o’clock p.m. White moved and Mayor Peterson seconded to grant conceptual approval for a Comprehensive Plan amendment to reflect the conditions in the March 1,2004 letter. Discussion was opened and Moorse conunented to clarify what the expectations are that: 1) We don’t want to say we are approving 30,000 square feet of retail Instead we want to be more specific and he believes the phannacy is key to this site and if Uie pharmacy is gone and we are just trying to fill up the space that is a different plan than is being talked about here. Gaffron stated that the City will establish parameters in the Comp Plan for development of this Outlot A that will include whatever conditions felt appropriate, whether this developer or any developer. Moorse responded to the applicant that we wouldn’t amend the Comp Plan to simply say “retail ”. We amend the Comp Flan to say it’s fine to do retail in this area versus office as long as the retail serves the neighborhood and fits these parameters. One of the parameters Moorse suggests would be it has to be a pharmacy or something that provides the same type of service uses that a pharmacy provides. 2) Moorse continued to say that the other thing he would suggest is. ‘he far westerly space has to be food oriented if it is all going to be retail because if it’s not then we have wasted that whole building. Applicant stated they have to get closer to the PUD using those parameters. Moorse stated it is not just the PUD, it is the Comp Plan Amendment language where the City would lay out those parameters so it is not a wide-open amendment. Gaffron stated to applicart that the rezoning goes band-in-hand with the PUD. PAGE 25 of 29 . I . h ti 4{ ill I . . I Si illiTYr iiirtt'i