HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-50 Resolution to approve CPA Rural Single FamilyResolution 2016-50
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
WASHINGTON COUNTY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2016- 50
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO
COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN RURAL SINGLE FAMILY LAND USE CATEGORY
DESCRIPTION, ADDING A NEW RURAL SINGLE FAMILY – SEWERED LAND USE
CATEGORY; AND REGUIDING AREAS WITH RURAL SINGLE FAMILY DESIGNATION IN
MUSA AREAS TO RURAL SINGLE FAMILY – SEWERED.
WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo is a municipal corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Minnesota; and
WHEREAS, The City of Lake Elmo has established a Comprehensive Plan that provides
complication of background data, policy statements, standards, and maps, which help to guide
the future physical, social, and economic development of the City; and
WHEREAS, The City Council has approved the Old Village Phase 2 Street and Utility
Improvement Project which will extend municipal sanitary sewer to some properties within the
Old Village MUSA ; and
WHEREAS, the City has approved projects to connect properties within the Tri-Lakes
Sewer Service Area to sanitary sewer;
WHEREAS, many of the properties within these areas have the land use designation of
Rural Single Family in the City of Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Rural Single Family land use definition states these properties have
been and will continue to be serviced by private on-site well and septic systems; and
WHEREAS, the Rural Single Family land use definition should be amended to allow for
municipal sanitary sewer connection consistent with the City’s practice; and
NOW, THEREFORE, based on the testimony elicited and the information received, the
City makes the following:
Findings
1. The text amendment will not impact lot density or any other standards for the affected
properties.
2. The Metropolitan Council has administratively reviewed the text amendment has
appeared to have no objection and had waived adjacent jurisdictional review.
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3. The expansion of the MUSA is consistent with improving the health, safety and
welfare of the City of Lake Elmo residents.
4. The text amendment will remove an inconsistency between the MUSA designation
and Land Use category definition in the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that based on the foregoing, the Lake Elmo City
Council does hereby approve the Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment amending
the Rural Single Family Land Use category description, creation of a new Rural Single Family –
Sewered category and reguiding areas with Rural Single Family designation in MUSA areas to
the Rural Single Family - Sewered, subject to and contingent upon the following:
1. The Metropolitan Council’s approval of the Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment.
This resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo on this 5th day of
July, 2016.
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Mike Pearson, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Julie Johnson, City Clerk