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b) Amending Section 105.12.410 Table 5-2 of the Lake Elmo Zoning Code with parking standards for "Transitional Care Facility". c) Amending Section 105.12.510 of the Lake Elmo Zoning Code by adding performance standards for `Birth Center" and "Transitional Care Facility". d) Amending Section 105.12.620 Table 9-1 of the Lake Elmo Zoning Code to include "Birth Center" and "Transitional Care Facility" as primary conditional uses in the Agricultural zoning district. 4) Because Agricultural zoning district properties are often adjacent to residential properties, including the Applicant's property, which is adjacent to residential properties, the proposed uses are incompatible with surrounding land uses, given that the intensity of the proposed land uses. 5) According to Section 105.12.610(b) of the City Code, the purpose of the Agricultural zoning district is "to allow for agricultural and other activities associated with agriculture... [i]n addition, some limited agriculture -related businesses, such as wayside stands and outdoor recreation, are appropriate short-term or interim uses for the district." The Applicant's proposed use is a medical facility use which is not in alignment with the purpose of the Agricultural zoning district in the City Code as it is not a agriculture -related business. 6) By allowing these types of uses within the Agricultural zoning district, they will be allowed not only for the Applicant's property but for all Agricultural zoning district properties within the City which may cause there to be negative impacts to other properties that surround these Agricultural zoning district properties, including, but not limited to, a significantly increased amount of light pollution and traffic. 7) The Applicant's property is on Keats Avenue, which a narrow road. It is also not connected to City sanitary sewer and utilizes a septic system. Therefore, the property and most agricultural properties given their rural locations, lack the proper roadway and sewer infrastructure to support a use of this intensity. This is given that emergency personnel will need to access the property with emergency vehicles (for intrapartum transfers to hospitals), and there will be additional traffic associated with the employees, patients, and visitors of the birth center and the transitional care facilities. The proposed birth center would allow up to four birthing patients at a time and up to ten transitional care patients. 8) These uses would operate as a medical facility which is already permitted in the City's urban business park and commercial districts. The City's definition in the Lake Elmo Zoning Code for "medical facilities" includes the birth center and transitional care uses in these zoning districts. The urban business park and commercial districts have the necessary infrastructure that will be required for birth centers and transitional care facilities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, and based upon the information received and the above findings, the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo hereby denies the request from Melvin Ashford with Minnesota Women's Care for a zoning text amendment. 2 LA515\1\952561.v2