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Lake Forest Planning Commission continues Hypnotique Wellness Center use-permit after applicant agrees to work with staff
Summary
The Lake Forest Planning Commission continued a public hearing on a conditional use permit for Hypnotique Wellness Center after the applicant and staff agreed to negotiate voluntary restrictions; the item was continued to the June 5 meeting and will be re-noticed.
The Lake Forest City Planning Commission on April 3 continued a public hearing on a conditional use permit for Hypnotique Wellness Center, allowing the applicant time to work with city staff on possible voluntary restrictions and clarifications.
The applicant, Brian McMillan, asked the commission to recognize his business as a “wellness center” rather than a conventional massage establishment and said the operation would initially be small — limited to himself, his wife and an uncle — with no massage tables and a closing time of 6 p.m. “We are not a massage establishment as you think we are. It's a wellness center,” McMillan said at the podium.
City planning staff cited the municipal code definition for massage, which covers “any method of pressure on or friction against or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, etcetera of the human body,” and noted the definition includes…
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