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General Business District <br />DRAFT Dec14-17 <br />for review only <br />The purpose of the General Business District (C-2) is to provide a <br />location for service-oriented and free-standing commercial businesses, <br />including retail sales, offices, and restaurants, which are oriented <br />toward motorists and require high volumes of traffic and visibility from <br />major roads. The minimum lot size in the C-2 district is 20,000 square <br />feet. <br />Future Central Business District <br />The Future Central Business District (FCB) represents transition <br />areas that have been identified as practical and generally suitable <br />for future development and redevelopment in accordance with the <br />City's downtown plan. The identified areas are a holding zone until a <br />landowner makes application for development, at which time the City <br />may rezone the affected property consistent with the downtown <br />plan, provided the development does not result in the premature <br />extension of public utilities or impede planned road improvements. <br />Residential land uses will be allowed to continue pending future <br />redevelopment consistent with the City's downtown plan. The minimum <br />lot size in the FCB is 8,400 square feet for a single-family home and <br />15,000 square feet for a twinhome. <br />HL#r 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE <br />Business Park Restricted Industrial District <br />The purpose of the business park district (BP) is to provide <br />opportunities for office, office warehouse, light industrial, and <br />light manufacturing businesses. Generally the types of uses that <br />are intended for the [BP] district are wholesale and retail trade <br />establishments for large volumes or bulk commercial items, office <br />showrooms and small businesses that have both commercial and <br />industrial characteristics. Uses allowed in the district are limited to <br />those that are compatible with lower intensity residential and business <br />uses, and which have limited amounts of truck traffic and outside <br />storage in comparison to higher intensity industrial uses. Because <br />business park areas may abut residential neighborhoods, uses are <br />regulated in height, lot coverage, setbacks, landscaping, loading and <br />use type, so as to facilitate compatibility between these uses and <br />residential development. The minimum lot size in the BP district is <br />15,000 square feet. <br />DRAFT Dec 14-17 <br />for review only <br />The purpose of the Restricted Industrial Zoning District (RI -1) is to <br />provide a location for office, storage, repair and limited manufacturing <br />facilities that do not require municipal water or sanitary sewer services. <br />To be permitted to operate in this zoning district, an industry must <br />have sewage disposal requirements of 3 residential equivalencies, or <br />less, as determined by Metropolitan Council Environmental Services <br />Standards. The minimum lot size in the RI -1 district is 2.5 acres. <br />General Industrial District <br />The purpose of the General Industrial Zoning District (1-3) is to <br />provide a location for office, distribution, light industrial, warehousing, <br />wholesaling, and repair businesses in areas that are served or <br />intended to be served by municipal utilities. The minimum lot size in <br />the 1-3 district is 15,000 square feet. <br />COMMUNITY BACKGROUND 41 <br />