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, . . _ , - � .��z.��. - `.i: ., K__,.....�_ �.�°�`` h�.__ - - - _ �. . .s��-'�=_�i - �=`" ------- ---- ' � __��,____�. __- �.. ASC Outdoor Storage 4749 Oid Highway 8 May 17, 2000 Page 2 The Comprehensive Plan designates this property and this area for industrial uses. The subject property is improved with an office-warehouse type building, as is the property directly to the north. Other properties in the area support a mix of light and heavier industrial uses, many of which also utilize outdoor storage to some degree. The fenced enclosure would be visible to traf�'ic on Old Highway 8 as well as to the adjacent property to the north, whose offices would face the proposed enclosure. Staffreceived a call from the adjacent property owner who expressed concern about the appearance of the proposed enclosure. ASC representative Hasselbring has proposed to install heavy-duty woven slats to further screen the materials being kept outside. No chemicals, hazardous substances or waste materials would be stored outside within the enclosure—only weather-resistant PVC piping. Section 1125.01, Subd. 3, of the Zoning Code identifies the general conditional use permit pertinent to all CUP applications. The City Council is to consider these criteria in addition to the advice and recommendation of the Planning Commission, For the Planning Commission to make a recommendation, staff thought it might be appropriate to review the general criteria in addition to the adverse effects considerations. These general criteria with responses are as follows: 1. The use will not create an excessive burden on existing parks, schools, sfreets and other public facilities and utilities which se��ve or- crre proposed to serve the area. It is not expected that the enclosed outdoor storage area would have any impact on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities which serve this area. 2. The use will be suffrciently compatible or sepa��ated by distance or screening fi•om adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that exrsting homes will not be depreciated in value and there will be no deten•ence to development of vacant land There is no residentially zoned or used land adjacent to or nearby the subject parcel and all land in the area has been developed. 3. The structure and site shall have an appearance that will not have an adverse effect upon adjacent reszdential pf•operties. There is no residentially zoned or used land adjacent to or nearby the subject parcel. As such, this criteria does not apply. 4. The use, in the opinion vf the City Council, is reasonably related to the overall needs of the City and to the existing land use. Outdoor storage is a typical accessory use within this zoning district reasonably related to the needs of the businesses that operate in the area. S. The use is consistent with the purposes of the Zoning Code and the purposes of the zoning district in which the applicant intends to locate the proposed use.