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City of Lake Elmo <br />Washington County, Minnesota <br />Resolution 96- 9 <br />A Resolution Denying the Request of Thomas G. Armstrong, Thomas P. Armstrong and <br />Jodi Armstrong for an amendment to an existing Conditional Use Permit <br />WHEREAS, by application dated June 9, 1994, Thomas G. Armstrong, Jodi M. <br />Armstrong and Thomas P. Armstrong (herein collectively "Armstrong ") requested that the <br />City amend the Armstrong Conditional Use Permit in a manner that would allow the <br />expansion of the Armstrong's commercial storage business on Agriculturally zoned <br />property; and <br />WHEREAS, on June 21, 1994, the Lake Elmo City Council adopted Ordinance <br />5097 repealing the City's Alternative Agricultural Use Regulations ( "Alt. AG. regs. "); and <br />WHEREAS, by repealing the City's Alt. AG. regs, the City placed the existing <br />Armstrong commercial storage business in a legal non - conforming use category which <br />would allow the Armstrong commercial use to continue but not expand; and <br />WHEREAS, the Armstrong's thereafter requested the City to continue with its <br />review of the Armstrong application and agreed to various continuances in order to allow <br />the City Council to re evaluate its decision to repeal the Alt. AG regs.; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed proposals to re institute some form of <br />Alt. AG regs and have determined in its discretion that it is not in the City's best interests <br />to allow additional non - agricultural uses on agriculturally zoned property. <br />IOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council hereby denies the <br />Armstrong application to amend its Conditional Use Permit for the following reasons: <br />The requested amendment would facilitate an expansion of a legal non- <br />conforming commercial storage business. <br />2. The City's Development Regulations do not permit this type of expansion. <br />It is not in the best interests of the City, nor is it legally permissible for the City <br />without amending its Development Regulations, to permit an expansion to a <br />commercial storage business on property located in the City's Agricultural <br />zones. <br />