07.01 - 07.05 - Rezoning from Residential and commercial to Shorline Residential - APplica (City of Pequot Lakes)

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Planning Commission Report, November 2006 3 rezoning process to make all properties consistent with the new Land Use and Subdivision �. Ordinance adopted last summer. THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDING THAT PARCEL ID 29003iioiA00009 BE REZONED TO RURAL RESIDENTIAL, CONSISTENT WITH THE NEW ORDINANCE, BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS OF FACT: i. The rezoning to Rural Residential is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map,which designates this property as a Rural Residential. 2. The present land use tax classification of the parcel is for seasonal residential. 3. The landowner's stated desire to zone the parcel to Commercial would be inconsistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, which designates this area as a Rural Residential area. The partial commercial zoning would also be considered to be spot zoning, granting this property owner special privileges unafforded to those neighboring properties within the City boundaries. 4. Rezoning to Commercial would be inconsistent with the immediate surrounding land use pattern. This is particularly the case, given the Future Land Use Map designation and the present zoning of existing adjacent properties. 5. The subject property is adjacent to properties that have been rezoned to Rural Residential to the south and east across County Highway 112, and Forest Management adjacent to the west. 6. The property immediately adjacent to the south reflects an established development pattern of rural residential housing. The larger property to the north is outside of the City limits,but also reflects a present land use pattern for residential uses. 7. The principal frontage of this property is along County Highway 16 and all future land use designations of parcels along this northern boundary thoroughfare of City of Pequot Lakes are guided as Future Land Uses for Rural Residential, Agriculture, or Forestry Management. This reflects a major land use pattern of both current and future use for this area of the City. Any change from pattern would consititute a major departure from the City's current policy for land use in this area and would require an extensive re- examination of its Comprehensive Plan and a subsequent amendment thereto. Without such an initiative,this would in fact be considered spot zoning. 8. The Rural Residential zone is compatible with the Agriculture, Forest Management, Transitional Residential, and Recreation Zones. 9. The Rural Residential Zone is compatible with Forest Management, Recreation, Agriculture, and Transition Residential zones, although cannot be surrounded by Forestry and Agriculture. io. The property was zoned Rural Residential under the previous ordinance and had a minimum lot size of 5 acres, and the new Rural Residential lot minimum size is the same. Therefore the proposed rezoning would be an equal lot size minimum requirement from the previous zoning classification and will not result in a downzoning. ii. The property meets the minimum lot size for the Rural Residential zone, being roughly io acres in size. The property meets the minimum lot width for both street frontages in the Rural Residential zone,being over 200 feet wide on both sides. 12. Neither the property owner, nor her representation, has submitted findings or reasoning to support a rezoning to Commercial. 3. HEARING: Ordinance Amendment to Increase Accessory Structure Size in the Shoreline Residential Zone, City of Pequot Lakes. The City of Pequot Lakes, as did the former Sibley Township, currently limits the cumulative size of accessory structures on a property. Although the primary reason for this restriction 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 1 Baxter, Minnesota 56425 1 218.828.3064 1 www.communitygrowth.com