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Planning Commission Report, December 2006 5 This is their separate public hearing to rezone their properties to a classification in L, compliance with the new Land Use Ordinance. The property owners have indicated that they would prefer to have the portions of their properties previously zoned Commercial to remain as a Commercial zoning classification. THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDING) THAT PARCEL NOs. 290271100C00009 AND 29027110oD00009 BE REZONED TO COMMERCIAL, AND THAT PARCEL NO. 290271iooAAAoo9 BE REZONED TO FOREST MANAGEMENT WITH THE NORTHERN Zoo FEET OF THE PROPERTY EXTENDING TO THE WEST TO HURTIG ROAD AND THE EASTERN 35o FEET OF THE PARCEL EXTENDING SOUTH 675 FEET BE REZONED TO COMMERCIAL(see accompanying map for depiction) BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS OF FACT: 1. The rezoning to Rural Residential and Forest Management is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, which designates the smaller parcels as Rural Residential and the larger tract as Forest Preservation. 2. Should the larger property be rezoned to Forest Management, rezoning the two smaller properties to Rural Residential would be inconsistent with the compatibility requirements for that zoning district, which states that the Rural Residential zone may not be completely surrounded by the Forest Management and Agriculture zones. 3. Rezoning the northern smaller parcel (2902711ooC00009) would be inconsistent with the existing land use,as this property currently contains two commercial businesses. 4. Rezoning the larger parcel to Forest Management would meet the compatibility requirements for the zoning as this property does contain significant forest coverage, particularly in the northern portion of the property. 5. Rezoning to Commercial along State Highway 371 would be inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use map which does not designate this are for commercial use. 6. The properties were zoned Commercial along the State Highway 371 frontage to a point just to the south of Parcel 2902711ooD00009 and extending to the west roughly 300 feet under the previous ordinance. 7. The two smaller parcels(C&D) meet the minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet for the Commercial zone, each being approximately 1.4 acres in size. Each parcel also meets the minimum lot width of 50 feet by having roughly 200 feet of width. 8. The larger parcel(AAA) meets the minimum lot size of 10 acres and lot width of 300 feet for the Forest Management zone, being over 26 acres in size and over 800 feet wide on either side of the property. 9. The City has taken care in ensuring that properties are not downzoned from previous classifications. Not rezoning these properties to Commercial in some extent would constitute a downzoning. 5. HEARING: Rezoning from Forestry and Rural Residential to Forest Management and Rural Residential, City of Pequot Lakes. Parcel Nos. 2902711ooE00009, 2902712o1BB0009, and 290271402C00009. Terri Morris, Charles Peterson,and Jeffery and Megan Oelke,property owners. The subject properties are located on the east side of Hurtig Road and consist of the three parcels captioned above. The northernmost property, 2902711ooB00009, is roughly 5 acres L in size, currently undeveloped, and was previously zoned Forestry. The two southern properties were both previously zoned Rural Residential and both contain existing residential structures. 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 1 Baxter, Minnesota 56425 1 218.828.3064 1 www.communitygrowth.com