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Tschida Zoning Amendment Page 3 5. ANALYSIS: Staff has analyzed this rezoning based on the four criteria in the City ordinance under Section 90-40, Zoning Amendments: 1. The requested amendment is in compliance with the City's Comprehensive Plan. The City's Comprehensive Plan identifies the subject property as agricultural. The requested amendment would not change the land use of the property. The property is located in the east part of the City, which is planned for agricultural and rural residential uses. 2. The proposed zoning classification is appropriate for the property given the topographic, environmental and cultural limitations of the site. The property consists of a single family home and primarily natural vegetation and wetlands. While the property is not used for traditional agricultural pursuits, is does contain high quality natural areas and trees. The Agricultural zoning would be an appropriate for the property. 3. Existing public infrastructure is adequate to handle the development that can reasonable be foreseen on the site. The property is served by well and septic. Municipal sewer and water is not available to this area of the City. By changing the zoning from LA to AG, the minimum lot size would change from 40 acres to 10 acres. Because the subject property does not have frontage on a public road, any splitting of the property would require a variance. No development is proposed on the site and because the applicant's intent is to further preserve the property by entering into the Minnesota Land Trust Metro Habitat Protection Program, the existing access to the property is adequate. 4. The proposed zoning classification will not have unreasonable negative impacts on adjacent properties. The rezoning will not negatively impact the adjacent properties. The property will remain in agricultural and open space uses consistent with other properties in the zoning district. S. The floodplain designation on the official zoning map shall not be removed from floodplain areas unless it can be shown that the designation is in error or that the area has been filled to or above the elevation of the regulatory flood protection elevation and is contiguous to lands outside the floodplain. The floodplain areas are not proposed to be impacted.