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CITY OF LAKE ELMO PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF MARCH 9, 1976 Meeting called to order at 7:45 p.m. by Chairman Grace PRESFNT: Koval-., Grace, Crombie, Lundquist. Dreher, 8:15 p.m., Johnson, 9:30 p.m. HIGHWAY: Jim Mayeda of the Highway Department spoke to the PZC on the Hiqhway Sign Program. Presently there are 47 permitted signs on highway 12, 212 and 36. TF 12 & 212 were recently designated Urban Y.ighways. Consequentiv, there are no state funds for Aign removal. There are to be no signs on rural and agriculture land. Altho the state may grant a permit it may he denied at the local level. Presently, in Lake Fl.mo, there are 13 signs on agriculture land on TH 36. If there is no permit issued by the village these signs are considered to be in violation. HAASE: According to the City Zoning Map the F'aase Property lies half in, to the west, and half out, to the east, of the General Business Zone. Mr. Haase would like to see the remainder of the property zoned General Business. There being no quorum the PZC took the matter udder advisment and will contact him at a later date. Don Raleigh advised, in his letter to PZC, the property he zonerl as one tract since its a small parcel. ARLIN CHRIST:Mr. Christ, represented_ by Jack Kinnev, Taicker Tnc., re- 8839-36th. questing to have his 1 acre lot split into two lots. Present zoning does not permit such a split. COUNCIL vs. PZC-Ebertz Rezoning: Don Raleigh outlined the reason4 the council granted re- 7oninq of the Fbertz land. Tt was felt, by the Council there were 3 alternatives: 1. grant the rezoning_; 2. denv the rezoning; 3. return the issue to the PZC. It was felt there was no reason to deny the rezoninn since the planner concurred and the land lay in the nroner zone. The P"C's reasons to deny spoke for specific use of land, not rezoning_. It was felt the snecif.ic use can he handled at the time the applicant comes in for plat approval. Lundquist felt applicant didn't ask for commercial rezoning as referred to in Attorney Lammers Memorandum to the n"C and the General Business zoning was quite broad. Comments on the matter were: Before such matters were handled by a Special Use Permit, but are now covered by rezoning. Mix use should be more specific and define standards. Write a special ordinance in form of Sre(-ial Use Permit for all business that goes in on 12. Expand the list of special uses. It was felt some of the use in General Business were un-