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MEMO TO: Clerk -Administrator 6 City Council FROM: Director of Public Works/Community Development DATE: May 2, 1985 RE: HERBST AND SUNS DEMULCrION COMPANY Herbst and Sons Demolition Company has applied to the City to construct a warehouso addition to their existing building located at 2299 County Road H. Enclosed please find the following: 1. Staff report dated 4/17/85 2. Memo to Planning Commission from Director of Public Works/Community Development dated 4/23/85 3. Copy of Pages 106 and 107 from Gunnar Insberg's book on Land Use Planning. This is a definition of spot zoning. Unfortunately, I do not have copies of the site plan to submit to you at the present time. Herbst and Sons will provide additional copies of the site plan on Monday night. I will now present the background on this property and describe the issues. The City's Land Use Comprehensive Plan indicates that this property should be for Highway Commercial use. The zoning on this property is B-3, Highway Business District. The existing use is for sandblasting and warehouse storage space for demolition equipment. The property, as far as I can tell, has always been used for a warehouse. This is an Industrial zone use. The warehouse use may have been permitted in a B-3 zone in past zoning ordinances. The sandblasting operation is a more recent use of the property. In any case, the present use is non -conforming and Herbst and Sons may not, under the existing zoning, build an addition to their warehouse building. The issue then becomes, should the City deny the building addition because the zoning is incorrect for the present use ever, if that building has always been used as a warehouse? (A warehouse is a permitted use only in the Inoustrial zone.) The same problem exists on the lot directly east of Herbst's property. Pettibone runs their warehousing operation out of this adjacent property. A second issue or question is that if the property is rezoned from B-3 to I-1 is this spot zoning? The attachment entitled "Gunnar Insberg Land Use Planning" defines spot zoning. The Planning Commission and Staff's analysis is that if the two lots are rezoned from B-3 to I-1 that this is probably not spot zoning. The justification for rezoning this property to its present use is that the use has always been I-1. In fact, there are other single lots that are definitely a spot zone within the City of Mounds View. An example is the K Gas Station at 2901 Highway 10. This single piece of property, as you know, has