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Resolution 2001- 26 Page 3 7. Since 1975, the City has adopted various revisions to the zoning ordinance which would prohibit or limit the later establishment of slaughtering activities. 8. In 1976, the Village of Hugo became a City by state statute. 9. On March 6, 1994, the building occupied by the slaughtering facility was destroyed by fire. 10. On March 31, 1994, the Mr. Goiffon applied for and received a building permit to replace the building. The building as approved and currently exists is 1,584 square feet (Note: The building that burned was a conforming agricultural building that housed the slaughterhouse operation, and Mr. Goiffon replaced it with a conforming agricultural building of equal size. The zoning ordinance in 1994 (Section 320-5 Subd. A. 4.) allowed the replacement of non- conforming uses damaged by fire, subject to the conditions set forth therein. 11. The Board received public testimony from two residents at the Board of Appeals and Adjustments meeting. Mr. John Waller stated that the slaughtering activities have been in existence since at least 1956. Mr. Walter Stoltzman indicated that the slaughtering activities have been conducted since at least the early 1970's, which was the time he first became aware of the operation. There was no one in attendance at the Board meeting who spoke in opposition to the claims made by Mr. Goiffon. Further, the City received no written or verbal information from the public or others disputing the claims made by Mr. Goiffon concerning the commencement or scope of his operation. 12. The Board of Appeals and Adjustments Chairman, David Schumann, testified that he has lived near the Goiffons all his life and remembers the slaughtering facility since 1955 or 1956. 13. City staff reviewed City records and found nothing at this time that would provide a basis for disputing the claims that Goiffon has been slaughtering hogs and other animals on the property since the late 1950s or early 1960s. The records reviewed by staff included former ordinances, aerial photographs, property files, and meeting minutes. Further, City staff made an on-site inspection of the property on April 3, 2001, and found the scope of the slaughtering operation to be consistent with the claims made by Mr. Goiffon. 14. Similarly, the City Council has been presented with no evidence at this time which would cause it to dispute the claims of Goiffon that slaughtering activities have been conducted on the parcel since the 1950s or early 1960s, or to find that there has been an expansion or enlargement of the use. ADOPTED by the City Council on July 2, 2001.