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expressed at minimum a request to be rezoned to Commercial(C)District for 500' of the property bordering along County Highway 11. The Planning Commission is recommending that the property be zoned Rural Residential. This recommendation is based on the following findings of fact: 1. Rezoning this property to Transition Residential would not be consistent with the Land Use Ordinance as it does not fall within the projected utility service area. 2. The subject property is adjacent to properties that have been rezoned to Rural Residential to the east, Agriculture to the north, Recreation to the west, and Forest Management to the south. This property also surrounds a property zoned Rural Residential on three sides. 3. The Rural Residential Zone is compatible with Forest Management, Recreation, Agriculture, and Transition Residential zones, although cannot be entirely surrounded by Forestry and Agriculture. 4. The property was zoned Rural Residential under the previous ordinance and had a minimum lot size of 5 acres, and the Rural Residential District lot minimum size is the same. Therefore proposed rezoning would be an equal lot size minimum requirement from the previous zoning classification and will not result in a downzoning. 5. Rezoning to Rural Residential would be consistent with the development opportunities available to the property owners under the previous Ordinance. 6. The property meets the minimum lot width for the Rural Residential zone,being over 200 feet wide on both street frontages. 7. The property meets the minimum lot size for the Rural Residential zone,which requires a minimum of five buildable acres. 8. The property immediately adjacent to the east is has been rezoned to Rural Residential and properly reflects an established development pattern of large lot rural residential housing. The larger property to the north has been rezoned to Agricultural to reflect its present land use. The street pattern in the development adjacent to the east, however, would potentially support a similar extension of this existing street pattern to the west and therefore lends further support to a consistency pattern for future low density residential development on both the subject property and on the agricultural land to the north. 9. The Commercial zone is not compatible with the surrounding land uses, as Section 5.10 of the Ordinance states that the zone may not be established in area that is entirely surrounded by residential zones. The Ordinance also states that the Commercial zone should serve as a transition between the Downtown Mixed Use zone or the Light Industrial zone and the surrounding residential zones, neither of which are located adjacent to the subject property. 9. Rezoning from Forestry to Agriculture, Parcel #s 29011110OA00009 and 290111400000009, Northwest Paper Company (Potlatch), property owner, Parcel # 290111100B00009, Minnesota Power and Light, property owner. The subject properties are located north of County Highway 11 on Buschmann Road. In total, the properties measure roughly 80 acres, with the Minnesota Power property consisting of what appears to be an old utility easement measuring about one half acre in size. The northern Potlatch property is under one parcel ID number, but consists of the largest property shown and a small piece in the northeast corner. These properties have not yet been rezoned. These properties were zoned Forestry under the previous Ordinance and are posted in the hearing notice to be rezoned to Agriculture District, as guided in the Future Land Use Plan. 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 Baxter, MN 56425 (218) 828-3064 www.communitygrowth.com