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ensuring that the scale of the business does not exceed what is compatible <br />with a rural or semi -rural setting, <br />C. ensuring that adequate space is available, on site, for such operations, <br />d. ensuring that customers attracted to such business, including their <br />children, are not unreasonably subjected to risks; <br />e. ensuring that such uses do not present an added risk of disease; <br />f. insuring that the acreage of the site is sufficiently large for a traditional <br />agricultural use; and <br />g. otherwise preserving the rural character of Agriculture, Rural Residential, <br />and Open Space districts. <br />The current definitions of Agricultural Sales Business ("ASB") (and, indirectly, of <br />Agricultural Entertainment Business) ("AEB") restrict produce sales by those <br />who hold conditional use permits for such uses to sales of produce that is <br />produced on the premises. When the City was first setting the performance <br />standards in 2008 when those categories of conditional uses were created, such <br />language served to limit the scale of commercial activity by those property <br />owners who complied with that limitation. If the City removes that limitation, but <br />leaves the remaining performance standards unchanged, the City's ability to <br />achieve the objectives described above will be threatened. <br />If land with a rural zoning designation cannot be used in an economically - <br />beneficial fashion, that will increase the likelihood that the property owner will <br />press the City to rezone the property for rezoning to a non -rural designation. For <br />this reason, the City finds that the goal of preserving the rural character of areas <br />guided and zoned for rural uses is best accomplished if the City's regulation of <br />commercially -related land uses in Agriculture, Rural Residential, and Open Space <br />districts is not overly restrictive. <br />9. The City is changing, and will continue to change, as expected and unexpected <br />opportunities and challenges emerge. In particular, the City expects that certain <br />areas with rural zoning designations, or areas adjacent to them, will eventually be <br />converted to more intensive uses. Because of those changes, restrictions on <br />commercially -related land uses in a rural residential that are appropriate today <br />may be less reasonable in the future. The authority provided by the Minnesota <br />Legislature for cities to issue interim use permits (IUPs) is a sound planning tool <br />to address this dynamic, and is generally more effective than classification of such <br />uses as permitted or conditional uses. <br />Page 2 of 12 <br />