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27. Tcmporao sales such as Christmas tree lots. <br />28. Travel bureau. <br />29. Variety store. <br />30. Wearing opporel store. sho<f-stoffr; <br />31. OiT-sale Liquor Store <br />32. Home and garden equipment rental. <br />33. Municipal Buildings. Municipal buildings where the use conducted is customarily considca*d to <br />be an olTice use. <br />Any uses not permitted are required to go through the PUD Amendment process for approval. <br />Other Issues <br />Over the >-ears since the property was developed there have been comments from surrounding <br />residential property owners atx>ut the operation of the site in relation to noise and screening. There is <br />no standard that limits the types of equipment that can be used on the property, lltc zoning <br />ordinance regulates uses, but d^s not regulate the t>pes of equipment that would be allowed with a <br />particular use. <br />Operation of the nursery and production facilities includes bobcats, dump trucks, a front-end loader, <br />and other incidental equipment. The ordinance that can be applied to the use of trucks and <br />equipment on the property is the Noise Ordinance. The Noise Ordinance can be difllcult to enforce <br />becau.se the actual noise production may have ceased by the time the City can respond to a <br />complaint. <br />The City has never researched the decibel ratings on equipment used by commercial and industrial <br />users to determine whether they exceed noise standards. One ongoing issue with noise is the sound <br />of the back-up beepers on larger vehicles. This is an OSHA safety requirement and is exempt from <br />noise standards. <br />The primary piece of equipment the City has received comments on is the use of the front-end <br />loader. Mr. Olten has stated they use the front-end loader for fa.ster loading of materials that would <br />take much longer to do ifdonc with a smaller vehicle, such as a bobcat. The front-end loader is used <br />primarily during the daylime hours and stored within a building before 6:0() p m It is .also used <br />sparingly on weekends. <br />The production facilities on the property required screening by planting of trees located north of the <br />property to separate the commercial from the residential uses, llte trees were planted in 1990. In <br />most cases the trees have prospered and have begun to provide better screening. However, they have <br />never provided full screening of the properly. <br />This particular application is an opportunity to resolve some issues that have risen since the property <br />was developed. Possible solutions may be by setting limits on the extent of activities and equipment <br />allowed on the property and improving screening. City Staff is willing to mediate that discussion <br />between Otlen Bros, and surrounding property owners.