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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. 4800 Olson Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 Telephone: 763.231 .2555 Facsimile: 763.231 .2561 planners@nacplanning.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Kimberly Thompson/ Stephen Grittman DATE: January 9, 2006 RE: Little Canada - Galba CUP NAC FILE: 758.09 - 06.01 BACKGROUND Matthew Galba, has applied for a text amendment to the zoning code to create a Conditional Use Permit to allow for recreational uses in a front yard in the R -1, Single Family District. In addition, the applicant has also applied for a text amendment to Section 917.030 to decrease the required setback from an abutting federal, state or county trunk highway in the Shoreland District from 50 feet to 30 feet. The applicant has recently begun construction of a hockey rink in the front yard of his property, located a 2580 Edgerton Street. The site is zoned R -1, Single Family Residential. The applicant is requesting that the City create a conditional use category specifically for recreational facilities such as hockey rinks, sport courts, tennis courts, and swimming pools, in a front yard, other than a required yard. The code currently allows for swimming pools, tennis courts and other recreational facilities which are operated for the enjoyment and convenience of the residents of the principal use and their guests as an accesso; i use in the R-1 District. The applicant is proposing a hockey rink and sport court in the front yard, rather than the rear yard, and therefore requires the text amendment. The property is a 38,325 square foot lot on Gervais Lake. The front yard, which is currently a separate parcel, is approximately 15,750 square feet. The applicant is proposing to build an approximately 3,800 square foot structure in the front yard of the property that will serve as a hockey rink in the winter months and a sport court in the spring and summer months. The applicant has indicated that the floor of the structure will be concrete and will be surrounded by hockey boards with a vinyl coated fence mounted on them to contain all of the balls, pucks, and other equipment within the