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MINUTES <br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />NOVEMBER 14, 1996 <br />MARKET PLACE <br />SENIOR <br />HIGH -RISE <br />MARKET PLACE <br />DAY CARE <br />CENTER <br />SHORELAND <br />ZONING <br />ORDINANCE <br />AMENDMENT <br />Motion carried 5 - 0. <br />- Grootwassink stated he is considering selling a <br />portion of land at Market Place to Catholic Charities, <br />for a 35+ unit senior high -rise building. <br />- Grootwassink stated he has been approached to sell a <br />portion of land between the shopping center and Saxon <br />Bowl for the purpose of erecting a 10,000 square foot <br />day care center. <br />The City Planner stated that a couple years ago the <br />Zoning Ordinance was upgraded according to DNR <br />requirements according to new rules that required the <br />City to do so. After DNR review, they noted there are <br />a few modifications needed due to DNR modifying their <br />own rules as they have come to apply them across the <br />state. The Planner met with a DNR representative, and <br />minor modifications were determined to be needed. One <br />modification is to add the waterworks ditch as a <br />tributary stream, as designated by the DNR. <br />Knudsen asked if anything happens to the ditch as a <br />result of this designation. The Planner explained <br />that nothing physically happens to the ditch, but <br />rather the ditch becomes subject to shoreline <br />regulations. The entire waterworks ditch would be <br />designated a tributary stream, and the City would <br />submit a "flexibility from model rules" to back out of <br />the designation. <br />Keis remarked that the waterworks ditch is not a <br />stream. The Planner stated that regardless, it is <br />still classified that way. He stated that in this <br />situation, we classify it as a tributary stream <br />according to DNR regulations, and then we exempt <br />ourselves from the shoreland rules. The Planner <br />stated that the City does not lose anything by <br />adopting the ordinance, but we do stand to face a <br />legal wrangle that will achieve nothing if we do not <br />adopt the ordinance. <br />Knudsen asked what would change if we did not obtain <br />the exemption. The Planner stated that the areas that <br />are designated as shoreland have a reduced amount of <br />impervious surface allowed. Within 300 feet of a <br />shoreline, a business could not cover more than 25% of <br />their lot with impervious surface in a shoreland zoned <br />area. The impervious surface would include both <br />building and parking lot. Everything existing to this <br />point would be grandfathered in. Changes in the <br />future could be allowed through issuing a permit that <br />violates the 25% rule. <br />Page 22 <br />