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• • • • The Central Business District will become General Business, and the CB zone deleted from the ordinance. The Shopping Center district will be deleted, and shopping centers will be conditional uses in the business districts. • A new single family residential zone has been created: R -EC, Single Family Estate Conservation. This allows for "clustering" in a single family zone, but requires that any space saved by using smaller lots must become open space. (Sec. 2, Subd. 3, p.6 -12) The City Council approved the First Reading on February 24, 2003. An updated copy of the proposed ordinance was prepared for the council on February 28, 2003. In addition to housekeeping changes the updated ordinance included the following revisions: • Requirements for traffic impacts on streets adopted for subdivisions were added for conditional use permits (page 2 -6) and site plan reviews (page 2- 29). • Community Development Dept. will provide reports to the City Council regarding site plan reviews (p 2 -28). • Attached garage size maximums: whichever is greater of 1120 sf or house footprint (pp 3 -23 through 3 -28). • Confusing passage on screening of commercial vehicles deleted (p 3 -37). • A single - family lot in a residential zoning district shall not have more than one driveway accessing a public street (p 3 -60). • Sec. 3 Subd. 13, existing farms are permitted uses, retained (p 3 -86). • For cell tower applications, the search radius for other structures will be two miles instead of one mile (p 3 -91). • The concept plan for a planned unit development (PUD) will be voluntary to avoid deadline problems. Various statements have been deleted, starting on page 50. • The NB district is to be retained, not deleted (p 4 -1). • Corrected lot width minimum in R -EC district (p 6 -11). • Requirements added for R -2, R -3, R -4 districts to require that they occur only in the appropriate land use category according to the comprehensive plan, and that city sewer and water must be available (pp 6 -17, 6 -23, and 6 -29). • Clubs and lodges have been deleted from the R -4 conditional uses (p 6 -33). There is a minimal amount of land in the city designated for high density residential use. • Motor fuel stations have been deleted from the NB district (p 7 -4). • Bulk propane sales have been added to motor fuel stations in the LB, GB, LI, and GI districts (pp 7 -22, 7 -41, 8 -12, 8 -34). • Lighted canopy fascia will be allowed at motor fuel stations. Prohibiting this was intended for only the NB district and should not have been included in the LB, GB, LI, and GI districts (pp 7 -19, 7 -21, 7 -38, 7 -40, 8 -9, 8 -11, 8 -31, 8 -33).