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Planning Commission Minutes — July 13, 2006 Page 9 with the suggested changes of having the meat processing portion of the meat market to be only 50% of the total floor area of the meat market and that no slaughtering will be allowed. All ayes. Motion carried. Amendment to Hugo City Code to Allow the Expansion of Non -conforming Commercial/Industrial Uses. The CD Intern gave a presentation about Rick Burr sending the City a letter stating that he would like to expand his existing business, Gusset Design Inc., located at 15587 Forest Blvd. The property is zoned Commercial but the building use is Industrial. The structure was built before the zoning changed to a Commercial District so it is allowed to remain. According to the City Municipal Code, it states that the business is not allowed to expand because the use is nonconforming to the current zoning. This issue was brought to the EDA and the City Council and both suggested having a meeting with the surrounding property owners to determine what their thoughts were on rezoning the properties back to industrial. Almost all property owners stated that they wanted to keep the current commercial zoning. Staff brought this subject back to the Council on its June 5, 2006 meeting reporting on what the outcome was of the meeting with the surrounding property owners. The Council directed staff to draft an ordinance text amendment to allow the expansion of legal non -conforming commercial/industrial uses for consideration by the Planning Commission at a public hearing. Staff has drafted an ordinance text amendment to allow the expansion of a legal nonconforming commercial/industrial use with a Conditional Use Permit and with specific finding by the City Council that the proposed expansion will reduce the impacts of the legal non -conforming commercial/industrial use on the surrounding properties in terms of activity, noise, traffic, light, appearance, outside storage of vehicles, equipment, or materials, or other issues pertinent to the specific property and use involved. Staff did some research on other communities that allow this. Staff feels that allowing the expansion of legal non -conforming commercial/industrial uses will help reduce the impact of the uses in the City on the surrounding properties. Mc Roberts asked for clarification on commercial/industrial uses. The CD Intern stated that they can expand either commercial or industrial uses. Schumann asked if they would be held to commercial standards since it is zoned commercial or to industrial because the use is industrial. The CDD stated that they would be held to commercial standards. Schumann stated that he does not want to apply any more strain on these property owners by not allowing them to expand and that the City zoned it to make it a legal non -conforming use. He talked again about how Staff would enforce the commercial building standards. The CDD said we can discuss this issue when plans come in for approval and staff would work with the applicant. Schumann opened the public hearing.