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CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />ORDINANCE NO. 02-04 <br />AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE <br />CITY OF LINO LAKES BY REZONING CERTAIN REAL ESTATE <br />AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LAKE DRIVE AND AQUA LANE <br />FROM R -4, HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL <br />TO R -3, MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL <br />The City Council of the City of Lino Lakes, Anoka County, Minnesota does ordain: <br />Section 1 Findings <br />The Lino Lakes City Council hereby makes the following findings: <br />1. The City of Lino Lakes approved its current comprehensive plan in August 2002 with <br />Resolution No. 02 -103. The comprehensive plan was prepared and approved as required and <br />enabled by Minnesota Statutes 462.351- 462.356 and Minnesota Statutes 473.851- 473.869. <br />2. The City of Lino Lakes approved its current zoning ordinance in March 2003 with Ordinance <br />No. 08 -03. The zoning ordinance was prepared and approved as required and enabled by <br />Minnesota Statutes 462.357. <br />3. The comprehensive plan includes a Proposed Land Use plan guiding land within the City of <br />Lino Lakes for specified land uses. <br />4. The comprehensive plan guides a four -acre site at the northeast corner of Lake Drive and <br />Aqua Lane for land use category Medium Density Residential: 3 -6 units per acre. <br />5. The site is zoned R -4, High Density Residential. Under the current zoning ordinance, R -4 is <br />intended for the High Density land use category: 6 -12 units per acre. <br />6. Under the current zoning ordinance, the R -3, Medium Density Residential zoning district is <br />intended for the Medium Density land use category: 3 -6 units per acre. <br />7. Therefore, the current R -4 zoning is not consistent with the current Medium Density land use <br />category in the comprehensive plan. Such inconsistencies should be corrected by amending <br />either the zoning or the comprehensive plan. <br />8. Minnesota Statutes 473.858 and 473.865 require that official controls are to be amended so <br />as not to conflict with the comprehensive plan. <br />9. The High Density land use category, which would allow for development of up to 12 <br />units /acre, is not consistent with the existing townhome neighborhood, which is 6.4 <br />