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Planning Commission Minutes <br />March 25, 2024 <br />Page 4 of 8 <br />----------------------------- <br /> <br /> <br />3.2 PLAID LLC: Rezone request for 11.09 acres from Forest Management to <br />Commercial: PID 29110540. <br /> <br />Burslie went through the request/application. Same process of the meeting as <br />Variance, the difference is this Rezone is a recommendation from the Planning <br />Commission to the City Council. Justin stated this property does not have city <br />sewer water at this time. This parcel touches six other properties. Surrounding <br />properties have a variety of zoning: Transition Residential, Rural Residential, <br />Agriculture, Commercial and Forest Management. Staff findings are provided for <br />both approval and denial. We look at the Comprehensive Plan here, which does <br />conflict with the Future Development Plan. It was asked for all maps to be <br />reviewed, including the Land Use Matrix, which shows all types of businesses <br />that are allowed in the Commercial area. <br /> <br />No questions from the Commission currently for Burslie. It was then opened for <br />public comment. <br /> <br />Property owner next to proposed rezone area, Lisa Urseth: She talked about the <br />Comprehensive Plan and how on each page it states the city will preserve the <br />natural features of Pequot Lakes. Also read a page in which it stated ‘the rural <br />area of what was once Sibley Township (that’s us), features low density <br />residential development…” – everything she’s reading is against the <br />comprehensive plan if this rezone is approved. You’d have to rewrite the 32-page <br />document. The purchasers knew it was Forest Management when they <br />purchased it, now they want it rezoned. Everything about the developer’s plan <br />keeps people out of our small town, they’re not bringing in business, they’ll all <br />stop in and bypass us. The trees on the property now are a barrier from her <br />home to 371. The properties now that are zoned commercial aren’t next to <br />homes, the property you’re looking to rezone is right next to homes, keep it as it <br />is. <br /> <br />Craig Nagel, long term Pequot resident and was on Township Planning and <br />Zoning and Council many years ago. He worked very hard with citizens to keep <br />Pequot Lakes rural and not city like, they wanted to keep it green and safe. This <br />will become uncontrollable with what is able to be put on this parcel if rezoned to <br />commercial. Urges the Commission to deny the request as this is not what the <br />citizens want, nor those that live next to the property – you’ll erase the history <br />and all the work that was done from those before you. <br /> <br />David Kennedy, family has neighboring property now, grew up in the area. He <br />went through the history of the neighboring properties and how some of it came <br />to be rezoned as commercial – likely when it was part of the township, before the <br />highway was constructed where it is today. One of the homeowners from the 70’s <br />had a business on this farming property – nobody could imagine zoning that <br />commercial then would lead us to where we are today. He was under the <br />impression that the Comprehensive Plan was to keep that area undeveloped. <br />Nothing we can do with the current zone of commercial, but we can stop the lot <br />currently as FM from going to Commercial. Finding of Facts, he disagrees with