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#11-3501 YourBoatClub LLC ' ` April 7,2011 ' Page 3 Similar Past Requests . The only other boat club CUP issued by the City has been to Sailors World Marina in 1995. In that case, approval was granted for a 100-member maximum boat club use subject to maintaining the exclusive availability of 25 off-site parking stalls during May through September (subject to annual confirmation) with the City reserving the right to reconsider if parking issues or inadequacies arise at the marina or at the off-site parking location. That site had 75 slips requiring 45 parking stalls and only 41 available. Rather than granting a parking variance for the boat club, the City required off-street parking at a level that calculates out to 2.1 stalls per club boat(see Exhibit E). � , . Summary of Issues Discussed by Planning Commission Concurrently with this application by Your Boat Club, the Planning Commission is reviewing application #11-3500, a staff-driven proposed amendment of the B-2 Boat Club CUP standards. This concurrence is not coincidental; staff chose to bring forth the amendment for discussion in anticipation of the Your Boat Club application, in the hopes of esta.blishing clarity as to how the City will move forward given the apparently increasing public interest in a multiple-user concept of pleasure boating. #11-3500 B-2 Boat Club Standards Amendment. The Planning Commission in February began its first review of a staff-proposed amendrnent to the B-2 standards which would require that for each 5-persons capacity in boats stored in water or on land for boat club use, one complete parking stall shall be provided. This discussion is documented in the staff inemos and PC minutes attached as Exhibit D. To date, the amendment has been tabled twice, and its eventual outcome is uncertain. An issue raised by the Planning Commission during the initial February discussion was that the term "boat club" is not clearly defined in the code, but needs to be carefully defined given the variety of boating options available today. _Members questioned the need for parking standards for the boat club use, and asked staff to more clearly define the problem,to identify the objective the City would like to achieve, and to outline the options for achieving that objective. These topics were addressed in the subsequent staff inemo of 3-17-11. , As a result of further Planning Commission review in March, Planning Commission tabled the application again, suggesting that of the four administrative options presented by staff(see p. 4 of 3-17-11 memo: A - No change; B - Revise boat club conditional use standards; C - Interim Use Permit; or D - Make boat clubs an Accessory Use) they would like staff to pursue re- categorizing boat clubs as an Accessory Use rather than as a Conditional Use. Additionally, Planning Commission suggested that other allowable uses within the B-2 District should be considered in terms of their impacts on parking. Staff to date has not proceeded further on these recommendatioris. #11-3501 Your Boat Club CUP Application. Planning Commission reviewed this application at its March meeting. It is noteworthy that PC chose to reverse the agenda order, reviewing this � application before their second review of the B-2 Standards Amendment. Council is asked to