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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION July 26, 2010 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : July 26,2010 5 TIME STARTED : 5:30 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:30 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Gallup, O'Donnell, 8 Rafferty,Roeser and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 12 Staff members present: Acting City Administrator and Director of Administration Dan 13 Tesch; City Attorney Jay Squires; Community Development Director Mike Grochala; 14 Economic Development Coordinator Mary Alice Divine; City Planner Paul Bengtson; 15 City Engineer Jim Studenski; Police Captain Kent Strege; Police Coordinator Karen 16 Anderson; City Clerk Julie Bartell 17 18 Review Regular Council Agenda 19 20 Item 4A,Interim Police Department Reorganization - The council concurred that this 21 item merits some review before it is considered for approval. The council will discuss the 22 matter at the next regular work session. 23 24 Item 6A,KI Auto 25 A) Resolution 10-64 denying a Comprehensive Plan Amendment,Rezoning and 26 Conditional Use Permit allow the addition of an outdoor Automobile sales lot to the 27 existing automobile repair shop at 909 Maple Street -City Planner Bengtson 28 explained that the request before the council comes from the proprietor of KI Auto who is 29 seeking to expand his business by adding a used car function at the repair shop that exists. 30 The city guides the site as low density sewer and it is zoned as rural and both would have 31 to be changed. There is also an entry feature that has been added to the building that does 32 not meet the set back requirements and is considered a non-allowed expansion of a non 33 conforming use. That issue comes forward as a separate resolution from the rezoning 34 question. Regarding a comprehensive plan amendment,the Metropolitan Council would 35 not allow any amendments until the update is finally approved. The rezoning request is 36 for a change to general business but in order to meet the city requirements for that type of 37 a rezoning,the site must be within a MUSA district. Staff is recommending denial of the 38 comp plan amendment,rezoning and conditional use permit request. In addition the 39 findings demanded by state law cannot be met. 40 41 The council questioned if the denial of those requests would damage the applicant's 42 future ability(or increase the costs)to make the same request when the comp plan update 43 is approved and staff suggested that there wouldn't be any negative future impact. The 44 council also heard about the logistics of running water and sewer to the facility, a L 45 requirement in order to meet the general business zoning category;that would come at