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STAFF REPORT Item: Extractive Use Overlay District Background: The City has a moratorium on extractives uses that expires at the beginning of 2007. As staff,we have received numerous comments and direction from Commission members on how they desire that we proceed. Some members would proposed composing or editing new ordinance language and establish a complex system of regulation and administration of extractive uses. Other members proposed banning, either overtly or de-facto through strict regulation,all extractive uses. Other members had indicated preferences in between these. At the previous meeting, the Planning Commission was asked to consider the following questions: 1. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new temporary extractive use which involves just extraction somewhere in the City? 2. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new temporary extractive use which involves some type of processing or crushing somewhere in the City? 3. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new permanent extractive use which involves just extraction somewhere in the City? 4. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new permanent extractive use which involves some type of processing or crushing somewhere in the City? 5. Are members open to providing for expansion of the existing extractive use sites to take in adjacent properties for extraction? 6. Are members open to providing for expansion of the existing extractive use sites to take in adjacent properties for extraction and permanent processing operations? It was the consensus of the Commission, after discussion of the preceding questions, that the existing extractive uses and related pits should be allowed to remain with opportunity to expand. The Overlay District should include this area with a buffer area around it, but no specific buffer distance had been identified. As such, the Staff as prepared a revised map showing the proposed overlay district with a buffer Of 500 feet around those parcels. Residentially zoned parcels were removed from the district as extractive uses are prohibited in those zones. Under this proposal, the existing extractive uses would be allowed to continue to operate, but have the opportunity to expand so long as they meet the criteria for setbacks and restoration currently contained in the Ordinance, as well as other conditions applied through the conditional use permitting process. City of Pequot Lakes Staff Report 6-1 October 19,2oo6