08.01-08.04 - Rezoning Requests for Chris Greer and Curt Cogan, Final Plat of Island VIsta, Earl Hemmerich, Rezoning Request for Smith Property, Ordinance Amendment for Recreation Zone

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4. All parries with an interest in the property are shown as signers of the document. 5. The City Engineer has not inspected the extension of North Sluetter Road and the applicant has not provided financial security to cover the costs of improvements. 6. The applicant has submitted a plat check in which an independent Professional Land Surveyor finds that the final plat is in agreement with statutory requirements. 7. Financial security was not required to be posted for this subdivision. The Planning Commission further recommends that the following condition be included with approval of the final plat: 1. Before the final plat can be filed, the applicant must either provide financial security to cover the cost of road improvements or complete the road improvements to City standards and acceptable to the City Engineer. 4. Rezoning from Transition Residential to Urban Residential, PINs 290104100BA0009, & 290104100A00009,Carl&Colleen Smith. The properties in question are located just north of downtown on County Road 112 and are currently zoned Transition Residential. The properties in total are roughly 12.5 acres in size. The properties are bordered by properties zoned Agriculture to the north, properties zoned Urban residential to the south, and properties zoned Transition Residential to the west. The properties to the east are proposed to be rezoned to Transition Residential but have not been rezoned at this time. The applicant is requesting that the properties in question be rezoned to Urban Residential to accommodate a subdivision that the applicant is proposing. The City recently rezoned these properties from Wooded Residential and Multi-family Residential to Transition Residential. The Planning Commission is recommending that this rezoning request be denied based on the following findings of fact: 1. The rezoning to Urban Residential is not consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map, which designates this area as Urban/Rural Transition. 2. The properties are bordered on the north by property zoned Agriculture and on the south by property zoned Urban Residential. Properties on the west are zoned Transition Residential. 3. The parcel is bordered on the east by properties that the City has recommended to be rezoned to Transition Residential. 4. The Urban Residential zone is not compatible with the Agriculture zone. 5. The property was recently rezoned to Transition Residential, which has a minimum buildable lot area of 5 acres and a minimum lot width of 200 feet. Rezoning to Urban Residential would decrease the minimum buildable lot area to 6,250 square feet(roughly 0.14 acres) and decrease the minimum lot width to 50 feet. 6. The properties are not currently served by public sewer and stormwater services, nor are public sewer and stormwater services adjacent to the property. 7. The property has topographic characteristics that are not conducive to urban residential development. 8. The impervious coverage limit on the property would go from 15%to 40%, and much of the exiting vegetative cover would be lost. 9. There are ample areas of property zoned Urban Residential still available for development within the City. 14084 Baxter Drive, Suite 7 Baxter, MN 56401 (218) 828-3064 www.communitygrowth.com