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MEMORANDUM DATE: 09/15/04 MEETING DATE: 09/21/04 TO: Chair Stromgren & Planning Commission Members FROM: Susan M.H. Hall, Assistant City Manager)t - SUBJECT: Sunset Memorial Park, rezone and text amendment requests for new funeral home Requested Action: On September 21, representatives for Sunset Memorial Park will be in attendance at the Planning Commission meeting to present their concept plans for a new funeral home at their site at 2250 St. Anthony Boulevard. The purpose of the concept review is to have a review and comment period regarding the request with the applicant. The ultimate request to build the funeral home will involve.a series of steps and approvals by the City, which will require discussion. Background: The applicant, Alderwoods Group, is requesting a concept review of their interest in building a new funeral home on the Sunset Memorial Park site, located at 2250 St. Anthony Boulevard. The new funeral home is proposed to replace the existing cemetery office building at the main entrance to the cemetery on the east side of the property along St. Anthony Boulevard. City staff has been in contact with Mekus Studios, the architect, regarding this request. In order to build the funeral home, some steps would be necessary. The current zoning on the parcel is R-1; it is recommended the applicant rezone the parcel to Recreational Open Space (ROS), which is more appropriate and in line with the zoning code as it allows cemeteries as a permitted use as well as mausoleums and crypt structures as permitted accessory structures. Following this change in zoning classification, the applicant would like to request a text amendment to the ROS district to allow funeral homes as a permitted conditional use. The City Attorney felt this course of action would be appropriate if the City were amenable to it. The Alderwoods Group has submitted a rezone application to the City to. begin the aforementioned process. A public hearing on the rezone application is scheduled for the October 19 Planning Commission meeting. Subsequently, the applicant will request the text amendment to the ordinance. The Planning Commission will make a recommendation to the City Council concerning this. It is the City Council who will hold three readings on the text amendment. Following this, the applicant would need to apply for a conditional use permit and go through that process with the Planning Commission and City Council. The applicant has provided a proposed funeral home design (see attached) as well as photographs of the existing cemetery Administration building and of the main cemetery boulevard road where the funeral home parking is located.