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Item No: 9B Meeting Date: November 10, 2003 Type of Business: CB Administrator Review : ______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance 711, an Ordinance Establishing a Pawn Overlay District Introduction: The City Council adopted an Interim ordinance on February 27, 2003, which directed the Planning Commission to review the licensing and zoning implications related to pawnshops and to recommend applicable provisions. Discussion: The Planning Commission discussed this issue at meetings in March, April and May of this year, reviewing State statues, ordinances from adjoining communities and ordinances from communities where pawnshops currently operate. The Commission also heard testimony from representatives of the Mounds View Police Department who performed research of their own, discussing the potential impacts of a pawnshop with other police departments. After significant discussion and input from interested parties including residents and tenants from Moundsview Square, the Commission adopted a resolution forwarding two ordinances on to the City Council for their consideration. The City Council deliberated on the pawnshop zoning and licensing matters before sending the zoning component back to the Commission for additional study to consider (1) an overlay district and (2) potential additional uses to include within the overlay. Two locations were identified by the City Council as potential overlay districts. The first proposed district was that area north of Highway 10, encompassing Sysco, the golf course and the office buildings on Coral Sea Street. The second proposed overlay was in the area south of County Road H, south of the Townsedge Terrace manufactured home community. The Planning Commission determined that if separation from residential areas was a primary factor in establishing an overlay zone, the area south of County Road H would be an unsuitable location given the density of housing at the adjacent Townsedge Terrace community. (There are approximately 240 homes in Townsedge.) The Planning Commission concluded their review on September 3, 2003 by adopting Resolution 737-03, a resolution recommending a pawn overlay district at the southwest corner of Coral Sea Street and County Road J in the northeast part of the City. This area north of Highway 10 was chosen as being the more appropriate of the two overlays proposed, limited however to just the three parcels at the southwest corner of that intersection. Additionally, the Commission by unanimous consent felt it would not be in the City’s best interest to include other uses within the proposed overlay.