There is a land use meeting today at 3:00.  2nd floor conference room.  As you can see from the pic, there weren’t a lot of folks there.

UPDATE:  There were ab0ut 6 people in attendance.  The Land Use committee hasn’t finalized recommendations yet but is pursuing a two-pronged strategy:

1.  Proceed with the study that will begin to establish a legislative and study record to create a basis for regulating adult-oriented enterprises.  This study will be conducted by an outside expert who specializes on this stuff.  It will then be reviewed by an outside Attorney with an appropriate background.  This will then be submitted to the City Attorney for final review.

2.  Proceed on a simultaneous track to study and restrict, by traditional zoning, other classes of business that we do not want in the B-3 or B-3.5 (Old Town) area.  There are various and sundry examples of this list, Cleveland and Baltimore were mentioned during the meeting, but we will need to decide on our own list and some justification for the entries therein.  These zoning amendments will be prepared by an outside consultant as we don’t have much internal capacity to deal with this at the current time.

All of this is estimated to cost ~$50,000 – $70,000.  Regulation ain’t cheap.  We haven’t received timelines or much else from our consultants yet but a rough time estimate for all of this to be complete was early next year.  We briefly kicked around some sort of stopgap ordinance but, upon further reflection, that didn’t seem like a great idea for several different reasons.

NONE OF THIS impacts the existing store.

I’ll post back when things firm up a bit.  It’ll be several days at least.