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5 -5.01 <br /> SECTION 5. INTERIM DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL ZONING <br /> DISTRICTS <br /> 5 -5.01 AUTHORITY, FINDINGS PURPOSE <br /> A. Authority. Pursuant to M.S. §462.355, Subd. 4, the city <br /> has the authority to establish interim ordinances to <br /> maintain the status quo while the city is conducting <br /> studies, has authorized a study to be conducted or has <br /> scheduled a public hearing to consider adoption or amendment <br /> of the comprehensive plan or official zoning controls. <br /> B. Findings and Purpose. In 1991 the city council <br /> adopted a comprehensive plan for the city. The Metropolitan <br /> Council approved that plan in April, 1992. A recommendation <br /> in the city's comprehensive plan included studying and <br /> revising the city's commercial districts to conform to the <br /> plan and address future needs. In October, 1992, the city <br /> council contracted with the Hoisington Group, Inc. to carry <br /> out a planning study on all the city's commercial zones, to <br /> evaluate and recommend changes in the commercial zoning <br /> designations, to work with the property owners to determine <br /> future needs and to make recommendations to the planning <br /> commission and city council for revising the commercial <br /> zoning code provisions. The Hoisington Group, Inc. and the <br /> city completed a study of the city's commercial zones. <br /> After the completion of the planning study, the city adopted <br /> related planning studies, zoning and licensing provisions as <br /> necessary to address these uses with the exception of stores <br /> selling firearms or ammunition. Staff is continuing to do a <br /> planning study on stores that sell firearms or ammunition <br /> and their relationship to the city's commercial and <br /> residential districts. <br /> The city council has concluded that the granting of any <br /> permits or development approval, as specifically set forth <br /> in Subd. 3, could destroy or impair the integrity of the <br /> planning process and that a development moratorium is <br /> necessary to preserve the status quo pending completion of <br /> the planning study on stores that sell firearms or <br /> ammunition. <br /> It is the intention of the city council to protect the <br /> described planning process and the health, safety and <br /> welfare of its citizens by adopting an interim ordinance <br /> for a reasonable period of time during the time period of <br /> the study, planning and implementation activities. <br /> 41 <br />