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Item No: 7A Meeting Date: July 13, 2015 Type of Business: Public Hearing Administrator Review: ________ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing - Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 904, Amending Chapter 1106 of the Mounds View Zoning Code to Allow Additional Types of Exterior Materials on Columbaria (ROLL CALL VOTE) The City Council recently adopted Ordinance 899 that allows columbaria at churches. Due to the large increase in cremations rather than burials, more places are needed to store urns. Mounds View does not currently have any cemeteries, and the City Code did not address columbaria, so language was added to specifically allow and add some requirements for columbaria. The Planning Commission did not want to allow brick on the exterior of the columbaria out of concern for it not being maintained long-term. The ordinance was passed with language that did not allow brick. The Mounds View church that is planning to install columbaria would like to put brick on the exterior since it will be against their building, which is brick, and has requested that the ordinance be amended to allow brick exteriors. Staff met with the church members, and were given more information and examples of how it is common to use matching brick on the columbaria at churches. The City Council is supportive of making an amendment to allow brick on the exteriors of columbaria. Staff has also added bronze as an allowed exterior material, and removed the word “solid” from in front of stone in order to allow any types of stone. Recommendation Staff recommends the Council adopt Ordinance 904. Staff also recommends the Council consent to the publication of a summary of the ordinance as authorized by City Charter section 3.07. Sincerely, Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Attachments: 1. Photos of brick on columbaria (www.eickhofcolumbaria.com) 2. Ordinance 904