06.06 P & Z Administrator's Report

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f December 29, 2003 Mayor and City Council City of Pequot Lakes P.O. Box 361 Re: Planning and Zoning Administrator's Report Dear Mayor and City Council, The Planning and Zoning Commission held their regular monthly meeting in December and are forwarding you three public-hearing recommendations. 1. Request for Conditional Use Permit for a Church in the Commercial Zone. Pequot Lakes Baptist Church, applicant. The Baptist Church has been located at its current location for the past 14 years. In September, the Planning Commission recommended a rezoning of the land from Industrial to Forestry(the City Council later approved a rezoning from Industrial to Commercial partially at the request of the Church). The rezoning was done in part to facilitate an expansion project the church was seeking to undertake. The expansion requires a conditional use permit. The Planning Commission unanimously recommends that you approve the Conditional Use Permit. The recommendation is made based on the following findings of fact: 1. The property is located just south of the Industrial Park. It is bordered on all sides by public right-of-way. There are two proposed accesses off of County Road 112. 2. Neighboring land uses are industrial and commercial, which the proposed use is compatible with. 3. The church has been in this location for 14 years. The industrial park has developed adjacent to it over the last ten years. 4. The proposed use is consistent with the intent ofthe Commercial zoning 'district containing traffic patterns and peak usage patterns consistent with commercial property. 5. The proposal is consistent with the objectives of the Ordinance, which provides for churches to be placed in the Commercial zone. 6. Water demand and wastewater treatment is proposed to be handled on- site. As such, the expansion will not create additional strain on municipal facilities. 7. The applicants have submitted a site design for a sewage treatment system, which is adequate to handle projected flows. 8. The proposed use is not within the shoreland zone and is not visible from public water,but is located within view of the Paul Bunyan Trail. 9. The site is relatively flat. There are no significant alterations of the landscape planned or required with this development.