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Marina Licensing June 11, 1993 Page 3 The draft Marina Business License Ordinance does noL' recjuire adherence to the B-2 standards in order to be granted a license address or provide the City with any authority to regulate boat density, dock length, site planning, or any of the other potential issues as part of the licensing process. provide any standards as to what information should be collected for the license or what specific conditions can be placed on issuance of the license. The draft ordinance clearly reflects the Committee’s intent to issue an unconditional license to operate a marina business on an annual basis to each of our mannas. The draft ordinance is in a format that could be adopted tonight, and since it is not part of the Zoning Code, no public hearing is required. Once the ordinance is adopted, Council could consider issuing 1993 licenses to all the marinas, although techiucally we would have to request insurance information from each applicant. There are some remaining issues as far as licensing, these include: 1. What information to collect with the applications. 2. What conditions of issuance should be placed on each license, if any. A sample of our 1993 application form is attached, along with a 'jatnple of the "Conditions of Issuance" exhibit which we have attached to all licenses issued since 1979. Staff has never micro-managed the marina operations and doesn’t wish to start iww. We have not spent much effort on analyzing or using the information collected with applications, but we feel it would be prudent to continue to collect it for documentation and informational purposes The conditions of issuance to be placed on each license can be limited to those issues the Council believes require some level of regulation. Following is an outline of issues related generally to the regulation of marinas that probably need to be discussed at a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and Council. Note that the Planning Commission in reviewing the B-2 Ordinance earlier this spring concluded that a Joint meeting on this issue will help them better understand Council’s goals regarding marinas. 1.Does the City want to move away from a major policy position (boat density regulation) taken by the City in the 1970 ’s?