Planning commissioner Susan Harman continued her attempt at clearing up definitions related to private events at the July 25 meeting, but struggled with how best to describe what they were looking for. She noted parking, noise and occupancy need clarification but asked, “Are we trying to create something that is impossible?”
She said some people do not have a Conditional Use Permit for weddings or special events and have them anyway, while others have a CUP but ignore the regulations. “So what do we do?” she asked.
Commissioner Doug Breitling ultimately said he had an idea, and in the next couple weeks he would try to link weddings with special events. He said his idea, still incomplete, was “somewhere between liquid and Jell-o.” He said there needs to be a place where a person can get the information required to put on a graduation event, for example.