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<br />MAJOR CHANGES <br />Commercial Districts to be Deleted: <br />• B-2, Auto-Oriented Business District. This district exists in the text of the code but not on <br />the map. <br />• B-4, Comprehensive Business District. There is only one location zoned B-4, <br />Comprehensive Business District; it is along Rice Street south of County Road C. <br />These changes would leave only the B-3, General Business District plus one district to be added. <br /> <br />District to Be Added: It is proposed that the City create a new district, Corridor Mixed, and apply <br />it along Rice Street and portions of Little Canada Road west of the freeway. That district would <br />allow a variety of retail and service businesses, vertically mixed commercial and residential <br />buildings, and residential buildings with more than 8 units apiece. The intention is to allow more <br />market flexibility in the pattern of land uses while improving or retaining high standards for site <br />design. Improved market choice should encourage new investment and more efficient land use. <br /> <br />Current Commercial Zoning <br />Districts <br />Proposed Commercial Zoning <br />Districts <br />B-2, Automotive Business <br />C-1, General Commercial B-3, General Business <br />B-4, Comprehensive Business <br />R-B, Residential / Business C-2, Corridor Mixed <br /> <br />Industrial Districts to Be Deleted: The Business-Warehouse, Business-Industrial and the General <br />Industrial Districts should be deleted because they are each mapped in only one or two small <br />locations. They could all be replaced by the amended I-1, Light Industrial District. <br />The Business-Industrial District is mapped in one, small location along County Road D and <br />occupied by a self-storage building. That site could be rezoned as either the new I-1, Light <br />Industrial District, or one of the residential districts. <br /> <br />Industrial Districts to Be Created: Create a new, I-1, Limited Industrial District and allow a wide <br />range of activities such as manufacturing, office-warehouse buildings, office-showroom buildings, <br />office buildings, contractors’ yards, motor vehicle sales, restaurants and adult businesses. Use this <br />district in place of the several northern locations currently zoned I-1, Light Industry, I-P, Industrial <br />Park, B-1, Business-Industrial, and B-W, Business-Warehouse. <br /> <br />Current Industrial Zoning Districts Proposed Industrial Zoning Districts <br />I-1, Light Industrial <br />I-1, Limited Industrial B-I, Business / Industrial <br />B-W, Business / Warehouse <br />I-2, General Industrial <br />I-P, Industrial Park I-2, Industrial-Office Park <br /> <br />Districts to Be Used without Changes: The floodplain, shoreland and public districts would be <br />incorporated without change, as would the 2020 planned-unit district. The wetland district would <br />be made consistent with the 1991 Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act. No changes are proposed <br />for manufactured housing, signs or adult businesses. <br /> <br />Conditional Uses: Many of the Conditional Uses in the commercial and the residential districts <br />would become Permitted Uses with certain conditions stated in the code. That would allow more <br />buildings to be approved by City staff without having to go through the Planning Commission and