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Staff Findings: The Staff provides the following findings of fact for consideration by the <br /> Planning Commission: <br /> i. The rezoning to Rural Residential is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan, <br /> which indicates that Rural Residential areas contain development patterns that are low- <br /> density residential, not served by municipal utilities, and containing limited demand for <br /> accessibility and new roads. <br /> 2. Neither the rezoning to Rural Residential nor to Shoreline is not consistent with the <br /> City's Future Land Use Map,which designates this area as future Forest Preservation. <br /> 3. The proposed rezoning to Rural Residential meets the compatibility requirements in that <br /> the property is established near Shoreline Residential uses. The Ordinance does not <br /> indicate whether the Rural Residential zone is compatible with the Shoreline <br /> Commercial zone. <br /> 4. The rezoning to Shoreline Commercial is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan, <br /> which contains the goal of maintaining private resorts and facilities for public <br /> recreational use(p.65). <br /> 5. The property does not meet the minimum lot size of 5 acres for the Rural Residential <br /> zone,being just under one acre in size. <br /> 6. The property was recently purchased by the adjacent Wilderness Point Resort, with the <br /> intent of combining the property with the resort. <br /> 7. The property, on its own, does not meet the minimum buildable lot size of 2.5 acres for <br /> the Shoreline Commercial district,but combined with the surrounding resort properties <br /> to which it is planned to join, the resort parcel as a whole exceeds this lot size <br /> requirement. <br /> 8. The property,on its own, does not meet the minimum shoreline width requirements,but <br /> in combination with the existing resort parcel, the resort as a whole far exceeds the <br /> minimum shoreline width of 300 feet. <br /> 9. Rezoning this property to Shoreline Commercial would not constitute a down-zoning as <br /> this property was zoned Rural Residential under the previous Ordinance. <br /> Planning Commission Direction: The Planning Commission can recommend that the City <br /> Council approve,deny,or table this rezoning. <br /> Staff Recommendation: Based on the findings of fact presented in this report, the Staff <br /> recommends that the property in question be rezoned to Shoreline Commercial. <br /> City of Pequot Lakes Staff Report 8-3 <br /> December i4,2oo6 <br />