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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 19, 1986 PAGE 5 <br />Industrial or other appropriate zoning classification to permit <br />Brockman Trucking, Inc. to use the property as a storage site for <br />UP to 50 truck trailers and to permit construction of a repair <br />garage building at some future date. <br />M/S/P Morgan/Armstrong - to refer to the Planning Commission for <br />consideration of Joe Roger's variance request to the Development <br />Moratorium. (Motion carried 5-0). <br />8. PLANNING AND LAND USE <br />A. Proposed New Future Land Use Map <br />City Administrator Overby handed out the proposed new Future Land <br />Use Map and explained that this proposed map has been prepared on <br />the basis of conclusions reached from the land use inventory. The <br />purpose of the inventory was to compare the number of existing and <br />undeveloped housing sites (on lots) to the housing demand over the <br />next 15 years (1986-2000). The Planning Commission is using the <br />Metro Council's estimated population figures of 6,100 for 1990 and <br />6,400 for 2000 as their reference figures. <br />Based on these population "targets", 200 homes would be needed <br />between now and the year 2000 to accommodate 600 new persons in <br />Lake Elmo (assumes average of 3.0 persons per household). The <br />land use inventory estimates that there are 257 platted lots <br />already available at this time. This would theoretically be <br />enough to handle the 15 year demand, however it would make sense <br />to include the 189 potentially available (undeveloped) lots in the <br />R-1 zoning district. The new total of 447 housing sites would <br />theoretically provide for a population increase of 1,338 persons <br />in the City. This is over twice the projected rate of population <br />growth (600 new persons in 15 years). <br />Planning Commission Chairman Chuck Graves commented that the <br />Commission has not yet taken any action relative to the map. As <br />to potential lots for development, he questions as much as 10-20% <br />inaccuracy on the presented numbers. He further explained that <br />the Planning Commission voted to eliminate the I-94 Overlay <br />District. He's not saying that the Overlay District as it exists <br />is the best alternative, but was the best they could come up wih <br />at the time. He added that the Overlay District did define <br />several things: defined parameters or guidelines that could be <br />used when/if development occurs and can be controlled such as <br />minimum lot size and SAC units, it does serve as a "red flag" to <br />anyone that wants to come in and put in a development along I-94, <br />and provides a legally defensible position to accept or rejct <br />future proposed development. He would like to encourage the City <br />Council to leave in force the I-94 Overly district that was <br />accepted in October of 1985. <br />Planning Commission member Novak summarized that this proposal <br />includes six times as much acreage for residential units, and over <br />five times as much business acreage as we need to meet the <br />population forecast for the year 2000. <br />