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• page 2 Mr. Dale stated the plan for Hugo is not like those for Roseville, St. Louis Park, Bloomington, etc. There is a new and better way for Hugo, and we have enough land here to develop correctly. Many communities are presently trying to decide on correct lot size, and some are choosing five acre parcels. He stated the planners did not try to pre-zone every piece of land, rather set a minimum guide line and residents may come before the planning commission and council to rezone their land. Attorney Charles Johnson spoke again in more detail about the proposed zoning ordinance. Districts are to be designated as follows: Agricultural, Conservancy, Single Family Estate, Single Family Urban, Limited Business, Retail Busniess, Concentrated Business, and Industrial, and each district must have uniform requirements. Each district had permitted uses, accessory uses, and special uses. For a special use, residents must go before the planning commission and council with their plan and obtain a special use permit. There are also provisions for rezoning. Zones can be changed. If a plan for rezoning is reasonable without disrupting the entire village, more than likely it will be granted. In the making of the zoning map and ordinance, an attempt was made to take into ccn sideration land as it is presently used. Minimum lot sizes as proposed at the present time are as follows: 1. Agricultural - 20 acres per dwelling unit 2. Conservancy - 20 acres per dwelling unit 3. Single Family Estate - 1 acre per dwelling unit 4. Single Family Urban - 10,400 square feet per dwelling unit 5. Limited Business and Retail Business -non residential lot area-15,000 square feet 6. Concentrated Business -non residential lot area-8,000 square feet 7. Industrial-non residential lot area-15,000 square feet. The minimum requirements that are established also relate to front yard setbacks, rear yard setbacks, side yard setbacks, height limitations and maximum percentage of lot usage. In agricultural, conservancy and single family estates districts, 30 per cent of land usage can be utilitized with buildings. In limited business and retail business it*s 40 per cent, in concentrated business it's 60 per cent and in industrial it' s 40 per cent. Mayor Carlson then stated that concluded the informational part of the meeting and it was now open for questions or ideas from the audience. The first district to be discussed was the Single Family Urban, and attorney Charles Johnson gave a description of the district and its principal uses, accessory uses and special uses. Comments from the audience are as follows: Perry Copeland-St. Paul Attorney-said he noticed mobile home parks were excluded from single family urban, and only allowed for in the industrial district. He considered this bad planning and strongly urged that mobile home parks be included in siggle family urban and also in single family estate districts. He also suggested adding "such other uses not listed, that are compatable with those listed" to the uses in each district. Howard Moe-5989 Oneka Lake Blvd.-questioned where single family urban was located on the zoning map. He wondered if horses were allowed in the area. Attorney Johnson stated that the keeping of horses is permitted as a spe- cial use. You can keep non domestic animals in the single family urban and single family estates by a special use permit. If you have horses already, any use of your land is a legal non conforming use and you can continue on doing whatever you are doing.