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MOUNDS VIEW PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION 1160-23 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR MANUFACTURING, COMPOUNDING, PROCESSING, PACKAGING OR TREATMENT OF COSMETICS, PHARMACEUTICALS AND FOOD PRODUCTS AND THE RENDERING OR REFIING OF FATS AND OILS, FOR BIG DIPPER CREAMERY, 2222 MOUNDS VIEW BOULEVARD; PLANNING CASE 2023-005 WHEREAS, the applicant, Julie Guss, Big Dipper Creamery, has applied for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for the production of ice cream (primary use), and retail sales (accessory use) at 2222 Mounds View Boulevard, legally described as follows: P I D: 08-30-23-43-0010 Lot 1, Block 1, Herbst Enterprises WHEREAS, the property is zoned B-3 Highway Business, and guided General Commercial in the Comprehensive Plan; and, WHEREAS, Mounds View City Code §160.198(J) permits Conditional Uses in the B-3 district, to include "Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food products and the rendering or refining of fats and oils" (Ordinance 1003); and, WHEREAS, Mounds View City Code §160.452(B) includes the criteria for granting conditional use permits (Findings in italics): The use will not create an excessive burden on existing parks, schools, streets and other public facilities and utilities which serve or are proposed to serve the area; FINDING: The use will not create an excessive burden on public facilities. 2. The use will be sufficiently compatible or separated by distance or screening from adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that existing homes will not be depreciated in value and there will be no deterrence to development of vacant land; FINDING: The use is not adjacent to residentially zoned land, and is adjacent to office/retail, and industrial uses. There is no anticipated impact to adjacent uses. The structure and site shall have an appearance that will not have an adverse effect upon adjacent residential properties;