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54 Page 2 Planning and Zoning Commission September 26, 1979 Street and Lake Drive intersection, the interchange of 35-E and Main Street, and the possible future interchange at 35-W and County Rd 14. This last was contingent on whether the interchange ever developed, which would be discussed .atthe thoroughfare meeting. Also, the de velopability of;the land there was a consideration, as ,it was generally wet. Mr. Short raised the question of whether there was room for private development to occur south of the interstate, and Mr. McLean indicated that the property had been left out of the open space specifically for the intechange and there would not be a lot of land left over for comme- rcial development. Mr. Short felt the best location would be the north- west corner, as most of the land on the east side was fairly wet, al- though there was some potential for filling in along the county road. There was one existing house, and the interchange would also take part of that land. Assuming it was, put in, there would be good access and visibility, and travel to and from the park could generate a demand for a service -type commercial.The Strip zoning had been disscussed at the last meeting and the intention was to go through a rezone procedure at some point after the Comprehensive Plan was drawn up to protect the res- idential already existing, and at the same time protect the good commercial land there. This would not be done in detail yet; the public hearings in December would determine which areas would go residential and which commercial. Mr. Short reviewed the map of industrial areas. Moline, the proposed industrial park and Feedrite Controls were all zoned commercial, but represented the nucleus of an industrial use area and should more properly be zoned industrial. The area was logical for industrial use, as it was adjacent to the freeway, the good access and visibility, and sewer was available. Mr. Short recommended the area be expanded to include the area south of the training center, which also represented some light industrial use. He felt there could be a possible land use conflict with the area that presently was being platted for residential development to the north; this was also further away ,from access, and for these reasons he had designated it residential rather than indus- trial. Mr. Heath suggested expanding industrial to the area on the other side of County Rd 23 north of 35-W. He felt the same reasons for industrial would apply for this area as well, such as proximity to existing industrial usage, good addess and the location next to the freeway, which was not suitable for residential use. Mr. Locke pointed out that there was a lot more freeway frontage than there were things to put there; also, although it was a vible site, he questioned whether the industrial area should be spilt up as generally it should be kept to- gether as much as possible. Mr. Short noted there was already more area designated industrial than the City needed. He and Mr. Locke had done some reasearch to answer the question of how. much Lino Lakes should plan for; Mr. Locke noted there were a number of ways to estimate industrial use in a community, none of which were very precise because industrial in particular did not have to locate near the market. They had reviewed what was typical in the Metro area in terms of percentage of land used for industrial,and then applied that percentage to Lino Lakes for a target amount for development. Mr. Reinert asked whether a community the size of Lino Lakes could set aside a certain number of acres for industrial and expect it to develop, considering that sewer and water were not available. Mr. Locke agreed that these were cons-