3(e) Amend Conditional Use Permit for Exterior Storage

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steer clear for lo plus years of the city politics that have been going on here. I have tried to serve by being the Chair of Crow Wing County HRA and on the School Board for 8 years. „ Planning Commission Member Hallan stated he will take exception to one statement. Mr.Anderson stated only one? He felt pretty good about that. Planning Commission Member Hallan stated he does not believe the City has selectively been enforcing certain ordinances. I have sat through hundreds, no, over a thousand meetings in my life here and in other cities. Has everything been done fairly? No. This is not a perfect group,but I don't believe the City, as a whole, has selectively tried to go around any ordinance with anyone. There is a long history, I don't think we need to get into that; I don't think we have burned any bridges. Brandon, from that stand point, I think your personality has changed in the last i5 years and you also matured a lot more from my stand point. I am just saying that now the bypass is in and now you see what it looks like. I have no idea, I was around then, but I don't know exactly why we said the screening requirement or what we were anticipating. We aren't screening our own spray irrigation field. Someone could object to the rainbows of color by our effluent being sprayed out there. Your comment is, I think,that some type of screening should be done. Should it be i00%? No. How do you define i00%? Leaf on? Leaf off? Where do you go with this? Vice-Chair Birch stated we don't have an application in front of us to consider. His Conditional Use Permit does exist. He doesn't have an issue with the statements made by Mr.Andersen and the conditions on the site,the need for visibility, and all of the points made were excellent ones. But we are working off of what was done in 200�. There is a process to review this. If Mr.Andersen doesn't feel the CUP is relevant, we need to go through the application process to get it changed. Then we can have the conversation with an application that we can act upon. Planning Commission Member Hallan stated we don't have the ability to aye or nay the condition. He asked Staff if there is a way for the fee to review the CUP to be waived. Staff stated the City Council can waive the fee. He suggested recommending the Council to allow the applicant to come back to discuss the one condition with no application fee. When asked, Mr. Andersen said he would be fine with that. Vice-Chair Birch asked Mr.Andersen if he had anything to add. Mr.Andersen stated he doesn't want to drag up old history,but in regards to maturing, he just needs to give it context. Planning Commission Hallan stated he is an engineer and is anal. Mr. Andersen stated that with the amount of money it has cost him, and he knew it was going to cost him at the time,you would have been pretty excited about the situation, too,that he was faced with and the hardship that was put on him and his family. Mr.