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• CASE STUDY NUMBER 4 Conditional Use Permit -- Industrial Site Redevelo ment Background: Yours is~ a small, free-standing city, located on the interstate, approximately 70 miles from the Twin Cities. Your city has a strong chamber of commerce and just two years ago, an economic development agency (EDA) was formed. This past summer, after completing all of the prerequisite requirements, your city was acknowledged as a Star City for economic development. Due to the excellent regional access that has always been available to your city, many of the land uses that have located along the freeway have been heavy industrial in character, with extensive outdoor storage and informal display. There are two contractor's yards in the area, along with the city's maintenance building and equipment storage; there is an abandoned borrow pit on the edge of the area; and the grain elevator along the railroad tracks that parallel the interstate has been abandoned for some time. On the positive side, the land immediately adjacent to the freeway has been redeveloped • into a major truck stop, service stations and convenience stores oriented to the freewa Y traffic. Over the course of the past three years, two businesses have built new, light industrial buildings in the area. The comprehensive plan guides this area for Light Industrial use, although the majority of the land is zoned General Industrial (I2). The PIan calls for the area to be converted to light industrial uses in a coordinated and orderly manner as market conditions. allow. The EDA assisted in the financing of the two light industrial developments. The application before you is for a conditional use permit for the storage of buses. The property is a 15 acres parcel that has an existing truck terminal with a metal building. There is some minimal activity still occurring at the truck terminal, however, its business is not what it once was. The site is unpaved and is used right up to the property lines, with no setbacks, no landscaping, no curbing and no drainage improvements. The truck terminal use is a legal non-conforming use and could be maintained for that use, but could not be expanded without coming into full compliance with all of the new design standards for exterior building materials, setbacks, landscaping, signage, lighting, paving, curb and gutter, and drainage improvements. • HYPOTHETICAL CASE STUDIES PAGE 9