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Planning Commission Report, December 2006 9 4. The rezoning to Shoreline Commercial is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan, which contains the goal of maintaining private resorts and facilities for public recreational use(p. 65). 5. The property does not meet the minimum lot size of 5 acres for the Rural Residential zone,being just under one acre in size. 6. The property was recently purchased by the adjacent Wilderness Point Resort, with the intent of combining the property with the resort. 7. The property, on its own, does not meet the minimum buildable lot size of 2.5 acres for the Shoreline Commercial district,but combined with the surrounding resort properties to which it is planned to join, the resort parcel as a whole exceeds this lot size requirement. 8. The property, on its own, does not meet the minimum shoreline width requirements,but in combination with the existing resort parcel, the resort as a whole far exceeds the minimum shoreline width of 300 feet. 9. Rezoning this property to Shoreline Commercial would not constitute a down-zoning as this property was zoned Rural Residential under the previous Ordinance. 9. HEARING: Rezoning from Public to Shoreline Residential, City of Pequot Lakes. Parcel No. 291l000000A0009 and 29n000000B0009. The subject properties are located on the west side of downtown on the eastern shore of Sibley Lake. Both properties are owned by the City of Pequot Lakes, with the northern one, measuring 5 acres in size, containing recreational facilities, and the southern one being approximately 2.5 acres. Both properties were zoned Public under the previous Ordinance. These properties were not included in the City-wide rezoning last year. This is the public hearing to zone this property to a district that is consistent with the current Land Use and Subdivision Ordinance. The properties were zoned Public under the previous Ordinance, with the proposed new zoning classification being Shoreline Residential. THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDING THAT PARCELS 2911000000A000g and 29ii000000B0009 BE REZONED TO RECREATION BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS OF FACT: 1. The rezoning to Shoreline Residential is not consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan or Future Land Use Map,which designates this property as a Open Space and states that Shoreline Residential areas have a pattern of development that is residential in character adjacent to shoreline. These properties are not developed residentially, but rather are intended for recreation uses. 2. The rezoning to Recreation is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan, which states that areas of existing and potential parks, trails, public access points, and natural areas of varying size and function should be future Recreational areas. 3. The rezoning to Recreation is not consistent with the City's Future Land Use Map,which designates these properties as Open Space. The boundary lines of these properties include large areas covered by Sibley Lake. 4. Rezoning to Recreation would be compatible with the surrounding land uses as the Recreation district is allowed, and encourage, to be established wherever recreational resources exist.The zone is not incompatible with any zoning district. 5. The subject property is adjacent to properties that have been rezoned to Shoreline Residential to the north and south,and Urban Residential to the east. 6. The rezoning to Recreation would be consistent with the previous zoning of Public. 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 1 Baxter, Minnesota 56425 1 218.828.3064 1 www.communitygrowth.com