HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-031CITY OF LADE ELMO
WASHINGTON COUNTY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO.2024-031
RESOL UTIONAPPROVING A REQUEST BY STILL WATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ISD
834, FOR AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO
REVISE THE FUTURE LAND USE AND EXTEND THE METROPOLITAN URBAN SERVICE
AREA (MUSA) BOUNDARY.
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 includes
background data, policy statements, standards, and maps that help to guide the future physical,
social, and economic development of the City; and
WHEREAS, on January 18, 2024, Stillwater Area School District, ISD 834, (the
"Applicant"} filed a complete request for a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to allow for the
construction of a New Lake Elmo Elementary School on the property legally described in Exhibit
A attached hereto (the "Property"); and
WHEREAS, the request for a Comprehensive Plan amendment, depicted in Exhibit B, is
to revise the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) boundary, necessitating an amendment to
Maps 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-7, and 9-1, and Tables 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, and 9-5; and
WHEREAS, approval of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan is required in order
for the proposed Lake Elmo Elementary School to be served by urban sanitary sewer services
consistent with the City's adopted plans and policies; and
WHEREAS, the public hearing notice was published, mailed, and posted pursuant to the
Lake Elmo Zoning Ordinance, City Code Section 105.12.250, and Minnesota Statutes Section
462.355; and
WHEREAS, the Lake Elmo Planning Commission held a public hearing on the proposed
Comprehensive Plan amendment on February 12, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the Lake Elmo Planning Commission has submitted its report and 3-2
recommendation of denial to the City Council as part of a staff report dated March 6, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the City Council considered the Comprehensive Plan amendment at its
March 6, 2024, meeting and made the following findings of fact:
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L That the Applicant has submitted a request to the City of Lake Elmo to amend the
Comprehensive Plan in accordance with the procedures as established by the Lake Elmo
Planning Department and the Lake Elmo Planning Commission; and
1 That the Applicant has submitted a request for amendments to land use guidance to permit
the construction of a new Lake Elmo Elementary School to be served by municipal water and
sewer utilities,
1 That the request is to amend the Land Use Plan Map for the Property to revise the future land
use category on the Property from Rural Area Development (RAD) to Institutional (INST)
and revise the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MU A) boundary, necessitating an
amendment to Maps 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-7, and 9-1, and Tables 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, and 9®; and
4: Any eventual project must still meet state, county, and local requirements for development,
and must be found compatible with surrounding land uses to be approved the City-, and
5. That the proposed amendment is consistent with the overall goals and objectives of the Lake
Elmo Comprehensive Plan,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City Council does hereby approve the
Comprehensive Plan amendment requested by Stillwater Area Public Schools, ISD 834, subject to
the following condition:
I . Submission of the Comprehensive Plan amendment to the Metropolitan Council and the
receipt of formal notification from the Metropolitan Council that it has reviewed and
approved the proposed amendment,
This resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo on this 6t" day of March,
2024,
Charles Cadenhead, Mayo"
Ju e J has n, ity Clerk
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Exhibit A
Legal Description of Subject Property
The Southeast 1 /4 of the Southeast 1 /4 of Section 26,
Township 29, Range 21, Washington County, Minnesota, and
all that part of the Southwest 1 /4 of the Southeast 1 /4, lying
Easterly of the West 435.6 feet of the East 2006 feet of the
South 112 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section, Washington
County, Minnesota. Abstract Property
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Exhibit B
Depiction of the Comprehensive Plan amendment
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