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City Council Minutes August 23, 1982 Page Four Electrolux sales office from her home. Mayor Hinkle further indicated that the Planning Commission unanimously approved the conditional use permit for a period of six months, inasmuch as Ms. Swanson requested the permit for a six month period, to see if the business would be successful. Mayor Hinkle opened the public hearing. Mr. Rick Breezee,Building.andZoning Administrator, indicated that he had received a letter from Ms. Patti Swanson's neighbor indicating that they were in favor of the approval of the conditional use request. General discussion was carried on regarding the number of nonresident employees that would be involved in the home occupation. Mr. Swanson indicated that there was a possibility of a maximum of ten people that might be attending a training session held on an average of once a week. COUNCILMAN DUITSMAN MOVED TO APPROVE THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR MS. PATTI SWANSON AT 12651 HIGHWAY #10 FOR THE PURPOSE OF AN ELECTROLUX SALES OFFICE OPERATION FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR. COUNCILMAN ENGSTROM SECONDED THE MOTION. THE MOTION PASSED 4-0. 7. Zoning Ordinance Amendment Section 900.18 of City Code Dealing with Accessory Building Setbacks The City Administrator indicated that when the City Code was recently adopted, language was included in the Code which dealt with accessory use setbacks, and further indicated that the intent of the language included in the Code was to have a larger than normal setback for agricultural uses and metal buildings in re- lation to residential areas. The City Administrator indicated that in reviewing the adopted language in the City Code, it was found that the intended affect was not what the language said in the Code. The City Administrator indicated that to correct the problem, an Ordinance amendment was prepared and submitted to the Planning Commission for their review, and further indicated that the Planning Com- mission at their August 2, 1982 meeting, unanimously approved the language changes. The City Administrator indicated that the City staff has discovered that there is an additional problem with the accessory use setback language which affects at least one platted area, specifically, Greenhead Acres 3rd Addition, and more than likely will affect several other additional areas. The City Administrator, indicated that the revised accessory use setback language makes it virtually impossible for agri~ cultural accessory structures to be constructed within any platted area of the City. The City Administrator indicated that in an attempt to deal with the treat- ment of platted areas in the agricultural and residential zones, the staff devel,... oped a second version of the amendment to the accessory use setback language which now makes a provision for the issuance of a conditional use permit in the platted areas of the agricultural and residential aones which will superced'e the 600 foot minimum distance for agricultural accessory use and metal exterior buildings in those particular zones. The City Administrator further indicated that under Ord- inance 82-7, the Planning Commission and City Council would review on a case by case basis, each request for the construction of accessory use structures for agr~cultural purposes within a platted area, and that in their review it would be necessary to determine an appropriate setback that fits the specific situation pre- sented. The City Administrator further indicated that the second step in