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NOV-19-1999 11 15 NRC <br />612 595 9837 P.02i06 <br />NORTHWEST' ASS.OCIATE'D.CONSULTAN'1-S <br />IN~V COMMUNITY PLANNINC3. - bE51Ca,N MARKET RE5 E'ARG H. <br />MEMORANDUM' <br />T0: ~ Little Canada Nlayor and City Council. <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: November 19, 1999 <br />RE: Little Canada-McCumberlBuetow,2oning Issue. <br />FILE N0: 758.10 . <br />At the direction. of the City Council, staff has' been working qn developing a zoning <br />approach which will address the issues raised by the inconsistency between the current <br />zoning district (I-1, Llght Industrial) and the land use plan (low•density residential)' fur t3ie <br />Buetow and McCumber properties at County Road D and Edgerton Streek' Staff has' met <br />with the Buetows and McCumbers, and prepared a dreft zoning amendment intended to <br />address the inconsistency. ,The'zoning amendment utilized a PUD Zoning designation, <br />with specific uses allowed within the district. A modifled (-1 'setback requirement was <br />proposed ih the first draR_ <br />After meeting with the McCumbers and their representative,.three primary aspects of'the <br />proposal were raised to which the property owners objected- The McCumbers specifically <br />objected to the PUD District (rather than a business ,or industrial designation), the fact that <br />industrial uses labeled °manufacturing; compounding, assembly, packaging, treatment, or <br />storage of products arid materials" were listed as conditional uses'rather than permitted <br />uses,' and the fact that the setback provision imposed setbacks adjacent to residentlal <br />property which were greater than the industrial district standards. <br />The original. draft included these three provisions as a part, of the.overail'intent to'avoid <br />conflicYlietweentbe zoning and the land use plan, anii'protection oftheexisting resldeMtal <br />neighborhpod. The PUD approach was applied because it ali'owed the City to include a <br />statement that future land'use within this particular PUD'district would be encouraged to <br />convert to~residentiai,, even though the currently allowed uses were industrial in nature. <br />The uses which are more industrial in nature were established as conditional uses rather <br />than permitted uses in an effort to manage the potential'impacfs of industrial use'on these <br />1773 WAYZATA BOULEVARD, ,S'U1TE 555 ST.. LOUIS PARK, MINNESOTA 55476' <br />PHONE 6 7 2-595-9636 FA'X 81 2-595-9837 E-MAIL. NAQ@ WINTERNET.COM <br />Page 69 <br />