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Planning Commission Report, December 2006 4 THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDING THAT PARCEL IDS 29121000003Aoo9, 291210000040009, 291210000050009, and 29121000006Boo9 BE REZONED TO SHORELINE RESIDENTIAL BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS OF FACT: i. The rezoning to Shoreline Residential is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan as the properties are adjacent to shoreline and are residential in character. 2. The proposed rezoning to Shoreline Residential is mostly consistent with the Future Land Use Map,which designates the area adjacent to the shore as Shoreline Residential. The Future Land Use Map also designates the off-lake portions of these properties as Forest Management due to the forest cover in this portion of the City. 3. The proposed rezoning to Shoreline Residential meets the compatibility requirements in that the properties are adjacent to the Water Resource zone; the compatibility requirements state that the zone should extend through the first tier of parcels to a public road or 500 feet from the OHW, whichever is closer to the water body. In this case, the public road to the south varies from being 500 feet to over 80o feet from the OHW.A rezoning of a portion of these properties to Forest Management would not meet the minimum lot size and dimension standards for that zoning district. 4. The subject property meets the purpose and intent of the Shoreline Residential district: to provide a district for riparian residential development. 5. The property meets the minimum lot size requirement of 20,000 square feet for the Shoreline Residential zone, with each property being more than 40,000 square feet in size or greater. 6. Three of the properties meet the minimum lot width standard of loo feet for the Shoreline Residential zone. Lots 4, 5, & 6B each have about 150 feet of shoreline, while Lot 3A is only 50 feet wide. Lot 3A was previously acquired by the current property owner to add to the size of the other lots under his ownership. 7. Rezoning to Shoreline Residential would be compatible with the surrounding zoning classifications as the adjoining properties to the west and east are also Shoreline Residential and the property to the south of the road is Rural Residential. 8. Rezoning these properties entirely to Shoreline Residential would not constitute a down- zoning as these properties were previously zoned Residential with similar provisions governing their use. 4. HEARING: Rezoning from Commercial and Forestry to Forest Management and Rural Residential, City of Pequot Lakes. Parcel No.: 2902711ooAAA009, 290271100Co00o9, and 2902711ooD00009. Charles Peterson, Gary Peterson, and Thomas Peterson,property owners. The properties in question are located on the southwestern corner of the intersection of State Highway 371 and County Road 168 and consist of the three parcels captioned above and shown in the map below. The larger parcel, 2902711ooAAAoo9 is over 26 acres in size and contains a storage building on the northern portion of the property. Parcel 2902711ooCo0009, the northern small tract along the highway, measures 1.4 acres and contains Tasty Pizza and Learn & Play Day Care Center. The third parcel, 2902711ooD00009,is also 1.4 acres and is currently vacant. These properties were pulled out of the City-wide rezoning last year. Under the previous Ordinance, the properties were zoned Forestry with the area bordering State Highway extending back roughly 300 feet being zoned Commercial. 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 1 Baxter, Minnesota 56425 1 218.828.3064 1 www.communitygrowth.com