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CITY OF LAKE ELMO COUNTY OF WASHINGTON STATE OF MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 08-073 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LAKE ELMO CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES BY ADOPTING REVISED RURAL DISTRICT STANDARDS AND ADDING A NEW FIT RURAL DEVELOPMENT TRANSITIONAL DISTRICT TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE Section 1: Ordinance 08-073: The City Council of the City of Lake Elmo has adopted Ordinance No. 08-073, which incorporates revised rural districts into the Zoning Ordinance. The ordinance repeals the existing A — Agriculture, RR — Rural Residential, and RE — Residential Estates districts and moves these districts into the new sections; renames the R-1 Single Family District to RS Rural Single Family; and adds a new FIT — Rural Development Transitional District to the Zoning Ordinance. The other significant changes are as follows: • The rural districts have been reformatted using the new ordinance numbering and organizational scheme. - The districts are better organized using the urban districts as a guide. • The rural districts now make use of the more complete list of use classifications and definitions previously approved by the City, - The area that must be set aside on individual lots for septic drain fields has been reduced from 1 acre to 20,000 square feet in order to match the existing standards in RE — Residential Estate districts. Two treatment sites must still be identified on each building site for a primary and secondary system. Please note that the County rules require 10,000 square feet of area (5,000 for each of the primary and secondary sites) for drain fields. • The existing provisions related to cluster subdivisions in A and RR zones have been removed. The full text of Ordinance No. 08- 073 is available for inspection at Lake Elmo city hail during regular business hours. section 2• Effective Date This ordinance becomes effective after the date of its summary publication. ADOPTION DATE: Adopted by Lake Elmo City Council on the nineteenth day of March 2013. Ayes: 5 Nays: 0 !s/ Mike Pearson, Mayor Attest: /s/ Adam Bell, City Clerk (Oakdale -Lake Elmo Review: Apr. 3, 2013)