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Item No:7D Meeting Date: April 14, 2008 Type of Business: Action Administrator Review: ______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Denial for the Final Plat and Rezoning of the “Knollwood Place” Townhouse Development; Planning Cases DE2006-005, MA2006-003 and ZC2006- 001 Introduction: Integra Homes, represented by owner Ron Lillestrand, submitted a rezoning request in July 2006, and a major subdivision and development review for a 19-unit townhouse development in December 2006. At this time, the applicant has not submitted all the required documents to complete any of his planning requests, and the cases have been on hold since December 2006. Background: The City preliminarily approved Integra Homes’ request for a rezoning of their three lots to R- 3, Medium Density Residential, holding a first reading of the rezoning ordinance in July 2006. The second and final reading of the ordinance was to be done only after the final plat approval. This would prevent the possibility of the properties being rezoned without an approved development project. The preliminary plat was approved by Council in December 2006, with a requirement of final plat application within six months. In May 2007, Integra submitted some of the required information – enough that staff allowed Integra additional time to make corrections and submit the remaining required documents. The final plat application has not yet been “accepted” by the City since there are still quite a bit of changes and additional information yet to be submitted. Current Status of the Planning Cases: Staff has maintained contact with the applicant, met with him in December 2007, and several times sent a letter to remind him that he needs to move forward and finalize his planning cases. Each time staff has spoken with Mr. Lillestrand, he has indicated that he still intends to do this project, but has been waiting since the housing market has now declined. While that is true, staff has indicated that he does not necessarily need to build anything right away, but he must complete the planning process that was started almost two years ago. Since it has now been over a year since the preliminary plat was approved, staff felt that a deadline was necessary in order to finalize these cases.