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Bauer Welding CUP Amendment Report July o 2011 Page 2 CUP Considerations: Relationship with the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan encourages the expansion and City support of existing businesses within Mounds View. 2159 Mustang Drive is designated as light industrial and the proposed storage area is not inconsistent with the Comp Plan. The Geographical Area Involved. The applicant's business is located on Mustang Drive. The proposed storage space is not out of place for this industrial area and is not visible to any other properties. Depreciation. The driveway has remained unpaved for seven years and does not appear to have caused depreciation of the subject property or the surrounding properties. All of the industrial businesses within this area have things outside, and most are trucking companies with many trucks and trailers parked outside. The Character of the Surrounding Area. This part of the City is mostly an Industrial area. There is a manufactured home community to the north of the property, however, a natural vegetative buffer separates the properties. In addition, roughly 300 feet separate the driveway and storage area from the manufactured home community. The Skyline Motel is adjacent to this property on the east side. The businesses to the west and south are trucking companies. The Demonstrated Need for Such a Use. The applicant has indicated that he needs the additional outdoor storage area, but does not feel that paving the driveway is necessary since it is not visible from the street and will be removed when the building is expanded. Recommendations: Based on the above analysis, amending the conditional use permit to remove the condition requiring the driveway to have a hard surface should have no adverse impacts. Staff supports this conditional use permit amendment. Aftertaking testimony from staff and the applicant, the Commission can take one of the following actions related to the request: Recommend approval of the conditional use permit amendment. Resolution 944-11 is attached if the Commission chooses this action. Recommend denial of the conditional use permit amendment. If the Planning Commission selects this option, Staff would need to be directed to draft a resolution of denial with findings of fact appropriate to support the denial. 3. Table the request. If additional information is needed before a decision can be rendered or if more discussion is needed, the Commission can simply move to table the request until such information has been provided. Because of 60 -day requirements, the Commission would need to act upon the request as soon as reasonably possible to avoid an inadvertent approval.