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Item No: 10A Meeting Date: November 22, 2004 Type of Business: Public Hearing and CB Administrator Review: _________ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View City Council From: Kristin Prososki, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of the Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 739, Rezoning Portions of Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 1 of the Velmeir CVS Addition Located at the Southwest Corner of County Highway 10 and Silver Lake Road; Planning Case ZC2004-001 Introduction: On May 24, 2004, the City Council held the introduction and first reading of Ordinance 739, in conjunction with consideration of a major subdivision, rezoning and development review for the proposed CVS Pharmacy development located at 2800 County Road 10. Ordinance 739 rezones portions of the lots associated with the Velmeir CVS Addition subdivision. The site has an area of 5.54 acres and the parcels are currently zoned B-3, R-3 and R-4. The applicant is requesting that portions of the R-3 and R-4 parcels be rezoned to B-3. Also, a small piece of the R-3 property will be rezoned to R-4, as it is now attached to the Silverview Terrace apartment complex and the zoning needs to be uniform for the property. Discussion: When considering a rezoning, two things must be determined: whether the proposed zoning is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and whether or not it would be detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood. The Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map designates this area as mixed use planned unit development (MU-PUD). An MU-PUD is defined as, “Land containing a building or buildings with significant amounts of residential uses in combination with commercial and/or office uses.” Although the site is not being rezoned to PUD, this designation is consistent with the proposed subdivision in the sense that a CVS Pharmacy would contribute to adding the commercial component to the residential area. Staff does not feel that the proposed rezoning would be detrimental to the surrounding area because the proposed uses are similar to the surrounding uses. The area in question is located on Highway 10, which typically has commercial uses adjacent to it. Lot 3 will continue to be zoned R-4, which helps to buffer the commercial use. In addition, this area has been used in the past as a commercial property and it was not detrimental to the surrounding areas at that time.