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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />3824 Huntington Avenue St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 <br />952.920-1749 bill@weberplanning.com <br /> <br />Date: 25 January 2020 <br /> <br />To: Members of the City of Little Canada Planning Commission <br /> <br />From: William Weber, Zoning Consultant <br /> <br />Subject: Table of Contents and Residential Districts <br /> <br />This is the first of several memos that will help you through your review of the draft <br />amendments to the City’s zoning code. This edition covers the table of contents and the <br />residential districts. <br />Table of Contents and Major Features <br />I’ve outlined what is in many ways a conventional zoning ordinance, in that it is centered on <br />the zoning districts and uses words and numbers to provide the regulations. (Some novel <br />ordinances are much more graphic in their presentation.) <br />This ordinance builds on the current zoning regulations but takes these departures: <br /> Changes to Districts and Land Uses: As we discussed last summer, several zoning <br />districts will be deleted or combined, and several allowed land uses will be deleted or <br />combined. One new zoning district will be created. The R-2, Medium-Density Housing <br />District, will be broadened. <br /> Tabular Summaries of Allowed Land Use: Except for the dimensional requirements, <br />most of the detailed land use regulations have been moved out of the sections on the <br />individual districts and collected in either the Specific Development Requirements or the <br />General Development Requirements. The section for each district will focus on presenting <br />the dimensional requirements and include references to the specific and general <br />requirements. <br /> <br />There will be a general table of allowed residential uses, another for commercial land uses <br />and a third for industrial uses. <br /> <br />This will make it easier to understand what is allowed in each district and whether each <br />use is permitted, conditional or accessory. It will also be easier to find the key <br />dimensional requirements and will reduce duplication. Note that many of the specific or <br />general development requirements are presently in the existing Section 903, General <br />Provisions, which is entirely different from the future Section 915, General Development <br />Requirements. .