04C - Rezoning from Wooded Residential to Transition Residential

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Buildable Lot Area(unsewered) — square feet, minimum............................. 20,000 Residential PUD Maximum Density(sewered)...........2 units per 6,250 square feet Residential PUD Maximum Density(unsewered)....2 units per 20,000 square feet Staff Findings: The Staff provides the following findings for the consideration by the Planning Commission: 1. The rezoning to Transition Residential is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map. The Future Land Use Map designates these parcels as Urban/Rural Transition and partly as Forest Preservation on the eastern edge. 2. The properties are bordered on the east by property zoned Forest Management and on the west by properties zoned Transition Residential and Urban Residential. 3. The properties are bordered on the north by property that is zoned Agriculture and to the south by properties zoned Transition Residential. 4. Rezoning the property to Transition Residential would not constitute spot zoning, as adjacent properties are of the same zone or are compatible in their zoning. Rezoning to Urban Residential,also,would not constitute spot zoning as the adjacent property to the west is proposed to be rezoned to Urban Residential. 5. The Transition Residential zone is compatible with the surrounding zones and serves as a buffer between the more intense Urban Residential and Downtown Mixed Use zones to the southeast and the Agriculture and Forest Management zones to the north and east. 6. Rezoning to Urban Residential would not be compatible with the Agriculture zone to the north or the Forest Management zone to the east and would leave an island of parcels that were recently rezoned Transition Residential to the south of the properties in question. 7. The properties were zoned Wooded Residential under the previous ordinance, which did not have a defined standard. The previous Agricultural zoning had a minimum lot area Of 20 acres and a minimum lot width of 500 feet. The applicant has been under the impression that the zoning of the property entitled him to one-acre lots. Rezoning to Transition Residential would provide for an overall density double of what the applicant has stated he feels he is entitled to,and can therefore not be considered down zoning. 8. Two of the parcels meet the minimum lot area of five (5) acres for the Transition Residential zone: parcels 2901132ooAACoo9 and 2901132ooAADoo9. The other two parcels do not have at least five acres,being approximately one acre and 3.9 acres. Parcel Area Width 290113200AAC009 19.4 Acres -850 ft 290113200AAD009 11.2 Acres -480 ft 290113200000889 3.9 Acres -400 ft 290113200D00009 1 Acre _200 ft 9. All of the parcels meet the minimum lot width of 200 feet for the Transition Residential zone. io. The areas of all four properties meet the minimum buildable lot area of 20,000 square feet and the minimum lot width of 50 feet for the Urban Residential zone. ii. This property is not currently served by City sewer and water services, but utilities could be extended to this property from the end point at County Road 112 and Grove Street. Planning Commission Direction: The Planning Commission can recommend that the City Council approve, deny,or table this rezoning. Staff Recommendation: Based on the findings of fact presented in this report, the Staff recommends that the properties be rezoned to Transition Residential. Transition Residential City of Pequot Lakes Staff Report 4-3 September 15,2005