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Regular Council Meeting February 9, 2015 Page 2 interested parties last Tuesday and asked that the item be placed for action on this agenda, because no agreeable solution could be reached. Bud Mackey, 50 NW 32nd — he said he represented the local VFW and they were going to have a special event at Lake Crook Park in April. He asked that they amend City Ordinance 2012 -13 Chapter 3 Section 35 C to include Lake Crook Park for special events. Mayor Frierson asked Mr. Godwin to review this request. Christy Wendell, 4142 Primrose — she said a poor decision had been made by the City and it needed to be corrected. She said she was not opposed to recycling, welcomed new businesses to Paris, but the wrong location had been approved for Recycler's Depot. Ms. Wendell said the problem began when the City issued a building permit for an iron and scrap metal collection facility on Lamar at the entrance to Morningside. Ms. Wendell said when she asked the City how they could have possibly allow a metal scrap yard to be built next to a family neighborhood, she was told they met all the zoning requirements and it was zoned as Commercial Retail. Ms. Wendell said retail was defined as selling something to a consumer, and this business was not selling anything. She said what was even more puzzling to her was the fact that both properties on either side of this land, Cave Wave Car Wash and My Dentist were required to appear before this Council. She questioned why the same process was not required for the controversial junk yard. Ms. Wendell said she reviewed the Ordinances and there was no use listed for recycling, and therefore this permit should have been reviewed by P &Z and the Council. Ms. Wendell further said in response to her Public Information Request, there were two emails which greatly concerned her. She went on to say that seven months ago Mr. Glick wrote to Mr. Godwin and Mr. Napier confirming all these measures could be handled in -house and none of these matters concerning this venture would need to be approved by City Council. She questioned why this happened. Ms. Wendell also said several months later Mr. Napier's staff members said the City did not have any licensing or permitting requirements for metal recyclers. Vic Ressler, 4020 Holbrook — he said he lived in Morningside and had an office a few doors down from the proposed recycling center. He said he was not opposed to the recycling center, but was opposed to the location. Mr. Ressler also said he had a copy of the City Zoning Ordinance. Mr. Ressler said papers mentioned retail, but when he went through the City Ordinance book and looked for retail that it reflected that retail was specifically about shops and stores that sell goods to people. He said these people do not sell anything, but in fact they buy. Mr. Ressler also said that the ordinance subtitle specifically excludes anything that is salvaged material and also anything that is outside sells. Mr. Ressler said he does not see how it could fit under retail, even if zoned commercial. Mr. Ressler went on to say that he had reviewed all of the different uses in the Zoning Ordinance defined by the City for commercial, and not one of them comes anywhere close to describing this kind of business. He said he then looked at it from another perspective, and the one that absolutely fits this business is wrecking or salvage. Mr. Ressler said you can define salvage as reusing discarded or damaged material, by reusing property and materials contained therein for reuse, re- fabrication, or scrapping. He said this sounded like salvage to him. Mr. Ressler also said salvage requires heavy industrial and a special use permit, and that goes through Planning and Zoning. If vetted, it then goes through City