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R-76 % RESOLUTION CITY OF LAKE ELMO WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA A RESOLUTION APPROVING APPLICATION OF WALTER J. EBERTZ FOR REZONING WHEREAS, Walter J. Ebertz has filed an application pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.02.of the Model Zoning Code for Communities in Washington County as adopted by Section 301 of the Municipal Code of the City of Lake Elmo; and WHEREAS, the public hearing required by that Ordinance and the Statutes of the State of Minnesota has been held by the=City's Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City Council has received the recommendations of the Planning Commission thereon as well as the report of its Consultant Planner and has con- sidered the evidence adduced at said hearing by the"applicant and other interested persons and has considered the oral report of its Consultant Planner; and WHEREAS, the said Consultant Planner has reduced his recommendations to writing in his report to this Council dated February 5, 1976; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED , that the City Council finds with respect to the application of Walter J. Ebertz for rezoning of the West One-half of the South- east Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (W-� of SEa of SE14) of Section Thirty-four (34), Township Twenty-nine (29) North, Range Twenty-one (21) West: 1. The applicant seeks a rezoning of the said land from a zoning classification of "Single Family Urban" (SFU) to "General Business" (GB). 2. The property consists of approximately 20 acres fronting on U. S. Highway 12 and located approximately midway between Inwood Avenue North and Lake Elmo Avenue North. The property is generally rectangular in shape with an east -west dimension of 661.81 feet and a north -south dimension of 1,317.44 feet. The property is presently undeveloped, and development of surrounding properties is essentially commercial. 3. The applicant, upon being granted a rezoning, proposes to construct storage warehouses for grading equipment and possible future subdivision of the balance of the tract for other business sites. 4. The property is presently zoned single family urban which permits only urban agricultural uses or single family residential buildings. 5. The applicant has requested a rezoning to a general business district which permits a number of commercial uses, such as retail shopping, warehousing, offices, limited manufacturing, wholesale business, motels, farm equipment sales, repair garages, transportation terminal, automobile service, etc. The proposed use of the applicant will be permitted under the general business classification. 6. The 1967 comprehensive plan and the recently completed comprehensive plan up- date of the City of Lake Elmo have recognized the appropriateness of higher intensity Cuses for the property in question, such as commercial, industrial and higher density residential as opposed tothe low density residential purposes for which the subject property is currently zoned.