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e e e Corridor Special Area study. He said that the subject property would be a part of that recommended solution and grouping process. He felt that the question before the council was one of process; that is should land use decisions move from the general to the specific, with refinement planning occurring before site-specific rezonings? He said it was up to the council to determine whether the demands of time in this case were important enough to overweigh the need to follow this more orderly planning process. Mayor Keller called for rebuttal from the applicant. Mr. Johnson noted that the City Code definition of conditional uses in the M-2 zone had recently been narrowed considerably, in response to comments from the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). He said that as a result of this change, a restaurant could only locate in the M-2 zone if it could be demonstrated that the restaurant is there to support existing industrial uses. He therefore felt that obtaining a conditional use permit to allow the Skipper's Restaurant to locate on the site was not a possibility. Mr. Johnson concluded by expressing the hope that the council would demonstrate its commitment to economic development and to accommodating new commerce and industry by over- turning the decision of the Planning Commission. There being no further testimony, public hearing was closed. Councilor Obie said there was a need to clarify City policy in this area. He felt that a joint discussion between the council and the Planning Commission would help provide this clarification. He therefore encouraged councilors to overturn the denial of the Planning Commission and to approve the application, thus automatically triggering such a joint discussion. Councilor Miller referred to Mr. Johnson's statement that the Hearings Official had already made the determination that at least a portion of the property in question was intended under the General Plan for commercial use. She disagreed with this interpretation and felt that the record should be clarified to indi- cate that the Hearings Official had determined that a conditional use permit could be granted under the condition that the use would be primarily an indus- trial-wholesaling use, with incidental commercial permitted. She said it appeared that only the incidental commercial use had ever been established, but that this did not outweigh the original decision that the primary use should be industrial-wholesaling. Ms. Miller encouraged the council not to attempt to interpret the "blobs" of color on the Metropolitan Plan diagram by translating them into site-specific zonings. She said that the diagram had never been intended for such use. Ms. Miller felt that the major question before the council was determination of where the West 11th commercial strip is to end. Ms. Miller felt that the western edge of the Fred Meyer property on the north side of West 11th, and the western edge of the Pietro's Pizza property on the south side presented appro- priate boundaries for commercial strip development on West 11th. She agreed that a joint meeting of councilors and planning commissioners would be helpful in discussing this policy decision. MINUTES--Euqene City Council April 12, 1982 Page 7