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Item No: 7C Meeting Date: July 24, 2006 Type of Business: PH & CB Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of an Ordinance Amending the Procedures and Regulations Pertaining to Dog Kennels Introduction: Upon the recommendation of the Planning Commission, staff has drafted an ordinance to amend Chapters 701 and 1106 of the Mounds View Municipal Code that would eliminate residential dog / cat Kennels as a permitted conditional use in residential districts. Discussion: The basis for this proposed amendment is that presently any resident with three or four dogs has to go through a conditional use permit (CUP) process with the planning commission and city council subject to redundant public hearing and notification requirement. The problem with the process is that a CUP runs with the land, not the property owner, which means if the resident gets a CUP then moves, the CUP stays at the former property, which is not the intent. The other rationale behind the amendment is that having three or four dogs is not really a land-use issue. The licensing requirement remains essentially the same; the primary change is to simply drop the CUP requirement from the process. Other changes include adding language to define persons ineligible for a kennel license and establishing criteria and a mechanism through which a license may be revoked for just cause. By adopting these changes, residents would still need to present a petition bearing the signatures of at least 50% of their neighbors within 500 feet if they would like to have three or four dogs, however they would no longer be required to wait six weeks to go through the Conditional Use Permit and public hearing process. Planning Commission Action: At their meeting on July 5, 2006, the Planning Commission approved Resolution 842-06 which recommends approval of the attached Ordinance 774. The Planning Commission recommended that the “persons ineligible” section be strengthened so that people cited or charged with animal cruelty offenses would not be granted a license. The prosecuting attorney reviewed the ordinance and drafted the “persons ineligible” language.