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<br />Mounds View Plan
<br />Planning Commission
<br />Regular Meeting
<br />April 19, 2000
<br />Page 9
<br />accommodate the spacing issue. On behalf of the applicants, he extended hi
<br />Planrung Commissioners for their time in attempting to resolve these issues. ;;'!'
<br />Commissioner Stevenson requested clarification of the
<br />depicted on E�ibit A.
<br />Planning Associate Ericson explained that there was sia�'t����r��
<br />Highway 10 to allow the Bridges Golf Course billboarc��` ��s ���;
<br />however, they are located as proposed due to the presenc�. ox �74��a.���
<br />this nature on the golf course property.
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<br />Corrunissioner Hegland inquired regarding the distar�c;e;
<br />and the property line. Planning Associate Ericson �r�i;
<br />250 feet from the property line. He explained tl�� i'�'a�;
<br />stormwater holding pond is located to th�r �outh ax
<br />billboard, therefore, this is the only possible s�te.
<br />Comnnissioner Hegland advised
<br />explained that the issue under
<br />however, if Sysco's proposed 1
<br />encroaching upon their leg�� ,i,��n
<br />the varia��°,� ���ot�ld not ch��xi�� �
<br />at
<br />COIri1T11SSIC
<br />required w
<br />hardship."
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<br />to the
<br />�o�r�cl.s as
<br />� along the �-��� ���. ��:�'��.
<br />closely spaced �c��� i��r��,
<br />�t-�s, greens, and items of°
<br />the �}r�ci�'.� ��, ya�:rnmost billboard
<br />]lboard ?s ;���S,�t;�.-,d to be less than
<br />����: is loca�< <Y <����,:1,e north, and the
<br />�§f?ic:ly ad�.acent to the proposed
<br />;�aaces tt�+�� burden u�n Sysco rather than the City. He
<br />ation �s :;fhe 500-fc�pt spacing between the billboards,
<br />is less ihan 250 fe�t from their property line, they are
<br />�ted �h��n .��<�� r�o� �i`een established in the discussions, and
<br />vcr, h�; �ir� ���'c �elieve that the statement that the City is
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<br />�ti��rx , i�iE�i:�:;�ies "the variance requested is the minimum variance
<br />�; i.h�I����`���i��;,�."Economic conditions alone shall not be considered a
<br />�l�ai: ���:�� `'�ysco and the City were pursuing the billboards for
<br />«��ards generate revenue, however, this was not addressed in the
<br />ung Associate Enc�on` siai�d this was a matter of interpretation, in that billboards are
<br />��d, and there is ra:�?'m to make them fit. He explained that the economic factors could come
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<br />�lay, however,.�i��ere is some subjectivity with regard to the criteria and through the
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<br />s���ns at previ;�us meetings and at the staff level, staff felt that economic conditions alone
<br />���fi. ���v�n� ��s variance request.
<br />����?��,�� ��c�iier Kaden stated the City submitted their application for the billboards first, and had
<br />th� locatioris of the City billboards planned out, therefore, Sysco could only have one billboard
<br />without the variance, and the Planning Commission was considering that the hardship.
<br />Commissioner Johnson pointed out that this was also because the City would only have five
<br />billboards instead of six. Commissioner Kaden explained that without the variance, one of the
<br />parties would lose a billboard. Commissioner Johnson indicated another factor is that the State
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