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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MAY 5, 1987 PAGE 10 frontage road. Mr. Rosen explained there are presently six business uses operating in the 65,000 square foot building, which had been used as a cannery at one time, without benefit of a conditonal use permit. Mr. Gelb is trying to find a method to have official sanction by the City for the uses that are in the building now and had no problem with the Planning Commission's recommendation. 1. Tortilla Factory -- 6 employees, 2 bathrooms, no processing waste. Planning to add four more employees in the next four months. 2. Product Vending Systems -- dry storage space rental. 3. Huang Trading Import Co. -- dry storage space rental. 4. Diversified Bank Installations -- contractor for installation of electronic equipment for banks, 2-3 employees. 5. Nordic Concepts -- wood cabinetry manufacturing, 6 employees. 6. Rygmyr Foods -- processing of popcorn into various manufactured products, 10-15 part-time employees. Will be moving out of the building in late June. The applicant wished to continue using the building and immediately surrounding area (approximately 5 acres) for rental to commercial and manufacturing businesses. No expansion of the existing building size is anticipated. City Engineer Bohrer's site visit and review comments indicate that ,the two exisiting septic systems are in need of improvement. This .expansion would have to go beyond the 5-acre area where the conditional uses would be allowed. ;Mayor Christ felt it was an existing building and certain things have been occuring over the years in this building which are not hurting anything. The type of business that goes in there would be governed under the Alternate Conditional Use Permit. He ees no problem with this and would be willing to grant the necessary variances to allow ;the Alternate Ag Use. iCouncilman Graves felt this would .not fit well under the Alternate Uses to Agricultural zoning because of the nature of the variances that are required. When the alternative uses ordinance was put in place, they were quite concerned about the limitations that could be allowed under this. He hates to see the City granting variances on an ,ordinance that they just got done tailoring to fit a fairly narrow set of specifications. Graves explained this is a General Business type use there and would like to see this formalized under a CUP. ("-1 i Councilwoman Armstrong did not favor putting this in General Business, right in the middle of all the Ag land, this would be a big mistake. We are centering a business area in the old village and along the MUSA