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Item No: 7I <br />Meeting Date: June 14, 2010 <br />Type of Business: Action <br />Administrator Review: _______ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 845, a <br />Zoning Code Text Amendment to Add “Thrift Store” and <br />Other Types of Businesses as Permitted Uses in the B-1 <br />Zoning District (ROLL CALL VOTE) <br /> <br />Introduction: <br />Dawn Huffman has applied to the City for a zoning code text amendment to add “thrift store” as <br />a permitted use in the B-1, Neighborhood Business district. She wants the City to make this <br />change so she may open a thrift store in the vacant space at 2408 County Road I. City staff <br />felt that more permitted uses could also be added to the B-1 zoning district. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br />According to the Zoning Code, the purpose of the B-1 district is as follows: <br /> <br />The purpose of the B-1, Neighborhood Business District, is to provide for the <br />establishment of local centers for convenient, limited office, retail or service outlets <br />which deal directly with the customer for whom the goods or services are furnished. <br />These centers are to provide services and goods for the surrounding neighborhoods <br />and are not intended to draw customers from the entire community. <br /> <br />Staff researched what other cities allow in zoning districts that are comparable to Mounds <br />View’s B-1 district. All seven of the zoning codes from the other cities that staff reviewed allow <br />several uses in their similar neighborhood business districts. In general, all of the other cities <br />zoning codes allow service businesses such as medical clinics and offices, along with several <br />different types of retail in their respective neighborhood or limited business district zoning <br />districts. <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br />Approve the second reading and adoption of Ordinance 845. Staff also recommends the <br />Council consent to the publication of a summary for the ordinance as authorized by City <br />Charter section 3.07. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> Heidi Heller <br />Planning Associate <br /> <br />Attachments <br />1. Ordinance 845 <br />2. Ordinance 845 Summary <br />