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Item No: 8G/8H Meeting Date: March 26, 2007 Type of Business: Consent Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Schedule Public Hearings for Monday, March 9, 2007 at 7:15 PM and 7:20 PM to Consider Minor Subdivision and Conditional Use Permit Requests Associated with the property Located at 2280 County Road I, “The Station”, and to Consider Zoning Code Amendments to Chapters 1102 and 1113. Background: This report is prepared simply to provide background information regarding the requested setting of public hearings to consider the requests submitted by the owners of “The Station” located at 2280 County Road I and proposed zoning code amendments. Discussion: Four planning requests were submitted by Leon Theis and Tom Manke, owners of “The Station” in order to bring the gas station into conformance with the City Code: a minor subdivision for a lot split and creation of new lots at 2280 and 2284 County Road I, rezoning the property from B-2 Limited Business, to B-3 Highway Business, a Conditional Use Permit in order to allow a gas station in a B-3 district, and a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the land use designation from Neighborhood Commercial (NC) to Highway Commercial (HC). The Station was built in 1959 as “Gulf” and currently exists as a legal nonconforming use. The property owners would like to add two additional fuel pumps to the site and expand the current canopy to cover both sets of pumps. By doing this, the nonconforming use would be expanded. The City Code allows the existing nonconformance to continue, but not be expanded upon. This application involves planning requests, which if approved, would bring the gas station into total code compliance and allow them to move forward with the addition of more fuel pumps. After discussion at the March 7th Planning Commission meeting, Staff has been working on a solution to allow The Station at 2280 County Road I, to become a conforming use without rezoning their property or doing a comprehensive plan amendment. The Planning Commission indicated that they were supportive of The Station’s desire to become conforming and add two additional fuel pumps, but were hesitant to change the property to a higher intensity designation because of what that could be opening this site up to in the future if the owners were to sell the property.