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Item No: 8A Meeting Date: October 1, 2001 Type of Business: PH & EDAB WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Economic Development Authority From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Discussion and Consideration of EDA Resolution 01- EDA-152, a Resolution Authorizing the Sale of EDA- Owned Land Located at 2625 County Highway 10 to the Mounds View Animal Hospital Date of Report: September 26, 2001 Background: On May 7, 2001, the City Council provided staff with direction to accept a purchase offer for the property located at 2625 County Highway 10. The offer was submitted by the Mounds View Animal Hospital, who intends to construct a new freestanding facility on the site. They have received City approvals for the development; the last step is the public hearing for the sale of land which is required by Minnesota Statutes. The accepted offer for the property was $50,000. Staff had originally set a public hearing date for September 24, 2001, but due to a publication problem, the notice was not published and as a result the public hearing was renoticed for October 1, 2001. Discussion: Chapter 469 of Minnesota Statutes requires that the EDA hold a public hearing prior to the sale of any land it owns. This public hearing satisfies the Minnesota statutory requirements. The purchase Agreement that the City entered with the Mounds View Animal Hospital was contingent upon obtaining City development approvals for the site. With the approval of the Rezoning, Code revision, Conditional Use Permit and the Development Review, this contingency has been satisfied. The last requirement is the public hearing to consider the sale to the proposed purchaser, Mounds View Animal Hospital. Consistency with Comprehensive Plan: City staff and the Mounds View Planning Commission feel that the proposed sale would be consistent with the City’s Comprehensive Plan and the proposed development would be consistent with and appropriate for the existing neighborhood. The property has a future land use designation of Community Commercial, and the proposed use is consistent with that designation. The definition of Community Commercial, as indicated in the Comprehensive Plan, is as follows: “Land use principally engaged in the provision of goods or services with a primary