06-10-2004 Planning Comm. Agenda

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NL3~2T1-3V~1E5~' A5~OC1,4T~L3 C~NSiJL~'.A~9T5, ~~dC. ;, , ~ D 5775 ~Nayzata Boulevard, Suite 555, St. Louis Farf<, MN 55416 ..'...Y Telephone: 952.595.9636 Facsimile: 952.595.9837 planners ~~nacplanning.com ME3VIORAfdDtlM T0: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: May 10, 2004 RE: Little Canada -Zoning Ordinance Amendments FILE NO: 758.10 - 04.04; 758.10 - 04.05; 758.10 - 04.06 Staff has identified a number of issues related to zoning ordinance requirements and internal consistency between standards in the various districts. These items are essentially housekeeping items in nature. • The first involves public uses and their definitions in the Residential, Business, and Industrial zones. The City recently clarified the uses in the Public District, but discovered similar issues in the other zoning classifications. This amendment will correct those issues and make the ordinance more consistent between districts. + The second involves lot size requirements in the R-B, Residential-Business zoning district. The R-2 District allows two-family homes as permitted uses, but varies the lot size based on the date of the construction. Older units were permitted at a smaller lot size. When this district was updated, newer units were required to have larger lots. However, the R-B District also allows twc-family homes, but the later lot size requirements were not carried over to this section. This amendment will correct this situation. + The third amendment addresses the DNR lake designation of Savage Lake. The DNR designated Savage Lake as a General Development Lake, presumably prior to the construction of 35E. When the freeway went through, the west half of the lake was listed in the zoning ordinance, but the east half did not get a specific reference (even though the Si~oreland Overlay district mapping included the east 4-