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Item No: 6A <br />Meeting Date: December 15, 2010 m—t—V <br />Type of Business: Other Planning Activity <br />City of Mounds View Staff e� <br />To: Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Amending Chapter 1113 by Adding More Permitted and <br />Conditional Uses to the B-2, Limited Business Zoning <br />District <br />City staff received a sign permit application for a new Chinese restaurant that wants to move <br />into Silver View Plaza. Because of this request, staff decided to discuss increasing the <br />allowed uses in a B-2 zoning district with the Planning Commission and City Council. <br />On December 6, 2010, City staff discussed with the City Council the idea of adding permitted <br />and conditional uses to the B-2 zoning district, including restaurants. The City Council was <br />supportive of the idea and directed staff to proceed with preparing a code amendment to <br />make the changes to the B-2 zoning district. <br />The current zoning designation, B-2, allows for less intense commercial and service oriented <br />businesses such as laundromats, locksmiths, delicatessens, financial offices, florists, sporting <br />goods and hardware, to name a few. The property owner, Kraus Anderson, continues to <br />struggle to get tenants in Silver View Plaza and the City wants to help where it can. City Staff <br />asked the Planning Commission if they would be open to adding more permitted or <br />conditional uses to the B-2 zoning code, particularly relating to restaurants. The Planning <br />Commission agreed that it did not make sense to limit the types of restaurants based on what <br />type of cooking is done. The Commission suggested amending the zoning code to allow a <br />"small restaurant, cafe and tea room" as a permitted use in a B-2 district. The Code would <br />define a small restaurant as being limited to 24 seats and no more than 2,000 square feet in <br />size. The Commission also suggested allowing restaurants with more than 24 seats and <br />more than 2,000 square feet in floor area in a B-2 zoning district as a conditional use. <br />As noted above, City staff brought this idea to the City Council at the December 6, 2010 Work <br />session. The Council was in agreement with the code changes as proposed by the Planning <br />Commission. Based on the discussion with the Planning Commission and City Council, staff <br />recommends adding the following permitted and conditional uses to the B-2 zoning code: <br />