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Item No: 5A <br />Meeting Date: August 3, 2009 <br />Type of Business: Action <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Zoning Code Amendment, Conditional Use <br />Permit and Development Review for a Car Wash at <br /> “The Station,” located at 2280 County Rd I: <br />Planning Cases: TX2009-001, CU2009-002, and DE2009-001 <br />Introduction <br /> <br />The applicant, Leon Theis, owns the property and fuel station business at 2280 County <br />Road I, known as “The Station.” Mr. Theis would like to add a car wash to his existing fuel <br />station in order to compete with the three other fuel stations in Mounds View which all have <br />car washes. The Station property is zoned B-2, Limited Business, and all of the other fuel <br />stations in the city are zoned B-3, Highway Business. Currently the city code only allows <br />car washes as a conditional use in B-3 or higher zoning districts. <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />Prior to 2007, fuel stations were also only allowed in B-3 or higher zoning districts. The <br />Station was built in 1959 as “Gulf” and existed until two years ago as a legal nonconforming <br />use. In 2007, in order to bring the fuel station into compliance, Mr. Theis purchased <br />additional property so that his parcel would meet the minimum fuel station lot size and <br />applied for a zoning code amendment to allow small “neighborhood fuel stations” as a <br />conditional use in B-2 districts. Recognizing that “The Station” is a much smaller, non- <br />chain, neighborhood-based fuel station, both the Planning Commission and City Council <br />preferred to amend the code to allow this type of small fuel station in B-2 districts rather <br />than rezone the property to a more intense use. By bringing the fuel station into <br />conformance, Mr. Theis was then able to expand his business and add two more fuel <br />pumps. <br /> <br />Zoning Code Amendment <br /> <br />Staff is proposing that the City Council amend the Zoning Code to allow a car wash in a B-2 <br />zoning district as a conditional use. Staff has drafted the proposed addition to Chapter <br />1113, using the same language for car washes as stated in the B-3 zoning district. <br /> <br />1113.04: CONDITIONAL USES: The following are conditional uses in a B-2 District <br />(requiring a conditional use permit based upon procedures set forth in and regulated by <br />Section 1125.01 of this Title): <br />