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Procedures for Marina License Review <br />January 17, 1989 <br />Page 3 of 6 <br />There are three distinct issues Council should consider regarding <br />future dealings with marina licenses; <br />1. Should there or should there not be a Marina Committee? <br />2. Shoul.d the City license or not license marinas? <br />3. Should marinas continue to be an allowed use in the B-2 zone, or <br />should they become a conditional use? <br />Staff Reconiieiidatioii ~ <br />In staff's opinion, a number of factors point towards the conclusion <br />that the City should discontinue licensing marinas. First, the City has <br />or>ly indirect jurisdiction over dock use areas, dock layouts, and numbers <br />of slips. These items are all regulated by the LMCD and the DNR. The City <br />also has no jurisdiction over dredging, other than when spoils are placed <br />on land areas within the City. <br />Secondly, marina licensing mer ly serves as a duplicity of regulation, <br />in that the licensing standards are virtually identical to the B-2 zoning <br />district performance standards. Any changes in intensity of use, or any <br />construction or renovation of buildings, requires a commercial site plan <br />review by the Planning Commission and Council. Where code standards are <br />not met, a land use variance application will be required, as it would be <br />for any other business. Because all the marinas are substandard in their <br />jagree of conformance with performance standards (i.e. hardcover), <br />virtually any change in a marina operation will result in a variance <br />application.