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incorrectly issued the building permit over - the - counter instead of referring the matter to the Planning Department for a design review. 12. Page 5 of the 2015 Staff Report discusses the catering business and states, "Several zoning certificates for catering businesses have been approved by staff since the operation of the Masonic Center. Catering businesses were determined to be a use ancillary to the Masonic Center facility, and were allowed to use the commercial kitchen for food preparation, including food served on site." • Again, this is an incorrect and misleading statement. This has already been discussed in #3 above. 13. Page 6 of the 2015 Staff Report discusses three teen events the Masons held at the lodge, including: Alistair's Entertainment, Naughty or Nice, and White Party. • The City omitted to state that all three of these events are very different from private parties such as a private wedding or birthday party. Instead, these parties target teens by advertising on the Internet, and require teens to pay a fee at the door to enter. Usually hundreds of teens attend these parties. • These parties turned a quiet residential neighborhood into a party location for teens to come and drink alcoholic beverages and smoke marijuana. This is completely inappropriate for a residential area, and yet, this is exactly what the City has created. And this isn't much different from today when private parties are held at the lodge and alcohol is served —that is the City put a bar in the middle of a residential area. • Also, the Millers' understanding is that these types of "pay -at- the - door" parties that target teens require permits. Yet the Masons never got permits for any of these parties and to this day have not been sanctioned by the City. • As noted in a section above, it was the public outcry that stopped these parties. 14. Page 6 of the 2015 Staff Report states, "Mr. David Austin, an attorney retained by the Millers, indicated the Millers would have their own acoustic consultant prepare an acoustic study to document the noise levels associated with the events at the Masonic Center.... Staff has not heard any update from the Millers regarding the study." • This is an incorrect statement by the City. This was discussed in #7 above. 15. Page 7 of the 2015 Staff Report discusses that on April 16, 2010, the Masons proposed changes to its operations, including : "Ail functions would conform to the City's noise ordinance." • Although this is true, since the City's current interpretation of the noise ordinances is to exclude voices, the noise ordinances provide little protection for the Millers. Since the capacity of the lodge is 600, the noise level from voices alone can be deafening and makes the Millers' backyard unusable. • However, Planner Donna Decker, obviously did include voices in the codes as she states in a March 10, 2009 email to the Millers stating, "The measurement would be from a structure. What that would mean in terms of sound from a band or people attending a function, it would be measured 25 feet from the structure." 17