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TO: Planning Commission -
IFROM: Jo Ann Olsen, Senior Planner , ,_),_) - -
DATE: January 31, 1991 ___ _
SUBJ: Zoning Ordinance Amendment to Amend Section 20-57
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576 (3)
Regarding Contractor's Yards as Interim Use in the A2
IDistrict
ANALYSIS
IIOn February 12, 1991, the City Council recommended removing certain
uses as conditional uses and instead permitting them only as
- interim uses in certain districts. The reason for this was to
II allow uses that would be suitable on a temporary basis in certain
districts until they are further developed, at which point, the
interim use should be removed. During this process, contractor' s
II yards were listed as an interim use under the A2 District. It was
intent of the city to only allow contractor's yards to remain as a
conditional use in the IOP District. The Planning Commission and
11 City Council wanted to limit the area where contractor's yards
could be located since we were seeing applications for much more
intensive use of contractor's yards being proposed in the
agricultural and rural residential areas. With the proposed
II changes to the Comprehensive Plan, several acres of A2 land will be
located within the MUSA line. Therefore, contractor's yards
located in this location would not be suitable with the potenital
1 for development and the city has seen in the past, once a
contractor's yard is established, it is very difficult, if not
impossible for it to be removed. Therefore, staff supports
I removing contractor's yards as an interim use in the A2 District.
RECOMMENDATION
II Staff recommends the Planning Commission adopt the following
motion:
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1 "The Planning Commission recommends that contractor's yards be
deleted from Section 20-576(3) regulating interim uses in the A2
District. "
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Zoning Ordinance Amendment -
Contractor's Yards
January 31, 1991
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PLANNING COMMISSION UPDATE
' On February 6, 1991, the Planning Commission unanimously
recommended approval of an amendment to Section 20-576 (3) of the
Zoning Ordinance deleting contractor's yards as interim uses in the
A2 District as proposed by staff.
CITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION
' Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the following motion:
"The City Council recommends that contractor's yards be
' deleted from Section 20-576(3) regulating interim uses in the
A2 District. "
ATTACHMENTS
1. Planning Commission Minutes dated February 6, 1991.
2 . Section 20-576 of City Code.
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Planning Commission Meeting
February 6 ,' 1991 - Page 28
particularly near the driveway access to ensure that the flow is
directed towards the private catch basin . Runoff calculations prepared'
by a professional engineer and a contributing drainage area map is
required . -
8 . Existing sewer elevations and service elevation connections are I
required .
9. The applicant shall be required to install a city standard concrete
apron at the driveway entrance .
10. There shall be no outside storage.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously.
Brad Johnson: If I could add one thing . I . . .standards architecturally. III
also believe that standards architecturally. . .public hearings with
developers there and other users because you can basically really impact
financially those people that own property . . .have to have a lot of input all
to what 's possible and what 's not possible . Mansard roofs aren't the only
answer . There 's the bank building over here that doesn't have a mansard
roof..
Emmings: Well and you don't want everything with a mansard roof and how do
you get some variability if you 've got standards that say one thing? Those
are problems . I
Brad Johnson: My concern is I believe that everything should look good but
we 've got to be careful . . . If they come into town and they buy land in
town and know there 's a standard , they'll check all that . If you 've got
it , they know it . . .so , but thanks a lot on your help .
ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO AMEND SECTION 20-576(3) REGARDING
CONTRACTOR'S YARDS AS AN INTERIM USE.
Emmings: I 'm not going to ask for a staff report on this because this is 1
very short and I 'm sure everybody's read it . It 's a public hearing. Is
there anybody here from the public who wants to comment on this?
Batzli moved, Ellson seconded to close the public hearing. All voted in
favor and the motion carried. The public hearing was closed.
Ahrens: I don 't have any comments.
Farmakes: I have no comments on this as well . '
Batzli : I 'm in favor of it .
Ellson: Nothing. I
Conrad: No .
Erhart: Amen. ,
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Planning Commission Meeting
February 6 , 1991 - Page 29
Emmings: I 've got a question. I think it's a good thing but I 'm curious
' about mobile homes . On the back side it says , under Section 20-576 ,
Interim Use and it says mobile homes are okay interim use in the A-2 . I 'm
wondering if the same rationale that we're using here wouldn't apply to
mobile homes . If we 're worried about contractor 's yards within the new
area within the MUSA , would we want mobile homes in there either?
Krauss: I 'm not certain what the derivation of that is but I know that we
have at least one farm , operating farm in the city where there's a mobile
home on the property for farm help and it may have stemmed back to be
allowing those operations to continue. Conceiveably it allows the
' placement of a new mobile home on an interim basis . I don't know exactly
where that would lead us .
' Emmings: Well okay , that 's off the subject anyway but it seemed to me that
I was kind of surprised to see that down there. Does someone want to make
a motion on this? -
, Erhart moved, Ellson seconded that the Planning Commission recommend that
contractor 's yards be deleted from Section 20-576(3) regulating interim
uses in the A2 District. All voted in favor and the motion carried
unanimously.
(Brian Batzli left the meeting at this point and was not present to vote on
' any further items . )
ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO AMEND SECTION 20-41 . BY ADDING LANGUAGE
STATING THAT AMENDMENTS SHALL NOT BE ADOPTED THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
Emmings: Again , I think this is very straight forward. I won 't ask for a
' staff report . This also is a public hearing . Is there anybody here that
wants to comment on this?
I Conrad moved, Ellson seconded to close the public hearing. All voted in
favor and the motion carried. The public hearing was closed.
Emmings: Discussion anybody?
' Conrad: Yeah, I don't understand. What are we trying to do? The
Comprehensive Plan is a guideline that tells us where we're going so now
' what we 're going to do is once we decided that we're not going that way ,
that we 're going to go back and put it in the plan that said that 's the way
we were going to go .
Krauss: Well , sort of , yes.
Conrad: So what's the point?
Krauss: We have spent, you spent quite a bit more time than I have but a
number of years in developing a new comprehensive plan . The intent of the
comprehensive plan, or the land use portion of the comprehensive plan is
that it 's a guide for future land use decisions . The theory is that you
should, if you 're going to make land use decisions that are contrary to the
land use plan , before you do that you ought to go back in and examine the
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§20-575 CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
Sec. 20-575. Lot requirements and setbacks. 1
The following minimum requirements shall be observed in an "A-2" District subject to
additional requirements, exceptions and modifications set forth in this chapter: '
(1) The minimum lot area is two and one-half(21)acres,subject to section 20-906.
(2) The minimum lot frontage is two hundred (200) feet, except that lots fronting on a
cul-de-sac shall be two hundred(200)feet in width at the building setback line.
(3) The minimum lot depth is two hundred(200)feet.
(4) The maximum lot coverage is twenty(20)percent.
• (5) The setbacks are as follows:
a. For front yards,fifty(50)feet.
b. For rear yards,fifty(50)feet.
c. For side yards,ten(10)feet. I
(6) The maximum height is as follows:
a. For the principal structure,three(3)stories/forty(40)feet.
b. For accessory structures,three(3)stories/forty(40)feet.
(7) The minimum driveway separation is as follows: 111 a. If the driveway is on a collector street: four hundred(400)feet.
b. If the driveway is on an arterial street: one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250)
feet.
(Ord. No. 80, Art.V, § 3(5-3-5), 12-15-86)
Sec. 20-576. Interim uses. '
The following are interim uses in the "A-2" District:
(1) Churches. i
(2) Mineral extraction.
(3) Contractor's yards. '
(4) Mobile homes(compliance with section 20-905 is not required).
(5) Bed and breakfast establishments.
(6) Commercial kennels, stables and riding academies.
(7) Wholesale nurseries.
(8) Golf driving ranges with or without miniature golf courses.
(Ord. No. 120, § 3, 2-12-90)
Secs. 20-577-20-590. Reserved.
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