Ordinance 047adCITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESTOA
• ORDINANCE NO. 47 -AD
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 6.04 OF
THE CHANHASSEN ZONING ORDINACE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Section 6.04 of Ordinance No. 47, entitled
'The Chanhassen Zoning Ordinance," adopted February 8, 1972,
and as amended heretofore, is hereby amended to read as follows:
6.04. Uses by Conditional Use Permit. Within an R-lA
Agricultural District, the following uses may be allowed but
only upon the securing of a Conditional Use Permit:
1. Parks and recreational areas owned and operated by
governmental units and residential neighborhood
associations.
2. Non-profit schools, including colleges, having a
regular course of study accredited by the State
of Minnesota.
• 3. Government owned and operated civic and cultural
institutions including, but not limited to, admini-
strative offices, libraries, public safety buildings,
and places of assembly.
4. Golf courses, but not including minature golf courses
operated for commercial purposes.
5. Cemeteries.
6. Commercial radio and television transmission stations.
7. Living quarters for persons employed on the premises
of the permitted use.
8. Greenhouses, tool houses and similar structures
accessory to a private residential use.
9. Churches, but only if (a) the subject property lies
entirely within the metropolitan urban service area,
as defined from time to time by the Metropolitan
Council of the Twin Cities in its Development Guide,
pursuant to Section 473.145 of Minnesota Statutes; and
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(b) the subject property abuts a hard -surfaced
street which is designated as a minor arterial
• street or collector street on the City's
Transportation Plan, as that term is defined in
5462.352,Subd. 7 of Minnesota Statutes, and (c)
the subject property is designated as residential
on the City's Comprehensive Municipal Plan, as
that term is defined in 5462.352, Subd. 5 of
Minnesota Statutes.
10. Golf driving ranges and golf driving tees, but not
including minature golf courses operated for profit;
provided that, in addition to such other conditions
as may be prescribed by any conditional use permit,
the following minimum standards shall apply:
a) each site shall have frontage on a public
street which is designated as a minor arterial
in the City's Comprehensive Municipal Plan, and
b) no site shall be located within 500 feet of three
or more residential buildings.
11. Recreational beach lots, provided that, in addition
to such other conditions as may be prescribed by any conditional
use permit, the following minimum standards shall apply:
• a. No structure, ice fishing house, camper, trailer,
tent, recreational vehicle or shelter shall be erected, maintained,
or stored upon any recreational beach lot; provided, however,
that professionally maintained portable chemical toilet facilities
may be placed upon any recreational beach lot if located not less
than seventy-five (75) feet from the ordinary high water mark.
b. No motor vehicle, including but not limited to any
motorcycle, motorized mini -bike, all -terrain vehicle, or snowmobile,
shall be drivien upon or parked upon any recreational beach lot.
C. No recreational beach lot shall be used for overnight
camping purposes.
d. No recreational beach lot shall•be used for purposes
of overnight storage or overnight mooring of watercraft in abutting
waters, or overnight docking of boats, or other watercraft; provided,
however, that conoes may be stored overnight on any recreational
beach lot if said canoes are stored in canoe racks specifically
designed for that purpose. Docking of watercraft or seaplanes is
permissible, however, at any time other than overnight.
e. No boat trailer shall be allowed upon any recreational
beach lot; boats, seaplanes or other watercraft may be launched
from any recreational beach lot if accomplished without the use of
any motor vehicle, trailer, or wheeled dolly.
• f. No seasonal dock or permanent dock shall be
permitted on any recreational beachlot, unless said recreational
beachlot is not less than one hundred (100) feet wide at both the
ordinary high water mark and at a point one hundred (100) fee land-
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ward from the ordinary high water mark. One dock may be erected
upon any recreational beach lot which meets the minimum dimensional
requirements set forth in both this subparagraph "f" and in sub-
• paragraph. "g" of this Section 6.04 (11) .
g. No recreational beach lot dock shall exceed six (6)
feet in width, and no such dock shall exceed the greater of the
following lengths: (a) fifty (50) feet or, (b) the minimum
straight-line distance necessary to reach a water depth of four (4)
feet. The width (but not the length) of the cross -bar of any "T"
or "L" shaped dock shall be included in the computation of length
described in the preceding sentence. The cross -bar of any such dock
shall not measure in excess of twenty-five (25) feet in length.
No dock shall encroach upon any dock set -back zone, provided,
however, that the owners of any two abutting lakeshore sites may
erect me common dock within the dock set -back zone appurtenant to
said abutting lakeshore sites, -if said common dock is the only
dock on said two lakeshore sites and if said dock otherwise conforms
with the provisions of this ordinance.
h. Each recreational beach lot shall have a width,
measured both at the ordinary high water mark and at a point one
hundred (100) feet landward from the ordinary high water mark, of
not less than four (4) lineal feet for each dwelling unit which has
appurtenant rights of access to said recreational beach lot accruing
to the owners or occupants of that dwelling unit under applicable
rules of the homeowner association or residential housing developers.
• i. At least eight percent (80%) of the dwelling units,
which have appurtenant rights of access to any recreational beach
lot, shall be located within at least one thousand (1000) feet of
said recreational beach lot.
j. All recreational beach lots, including any recreational
beach lots established prior to the effective date of this ordinance
may be used for swimming beach purposes, but only if swimming
areas are clearly delineated with official U.S. Coast Guard marker
buoys.
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall become effective
from and after its passage and publication.
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Passed .and adopted by the Council on this
October , 1982.
Mayor
4th day
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City Clerk/Manager
(Publish in Carver County Herald November 3,
1982)