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PROJECT NARRATIVE Great River Energy ("GRE"} proposes to change the zoning classifrcation of its Elk River Headquarters Generating Plant Expansion parcel from R3 (Townhouse/Multiple Family Res.} #011 (Light Industrial} to more closely coincide with the actual ownership and intended use of the parcel. GRE intends to grade and prepare the parcel for ou#door storage of wire reels and other types of typical electric utility hardware and equipment. In addition, GRE would prepare the site to potentially add a steel "butler' type of building at some undetermined point in the future on the southwest portion of the parcel near the cemetery while maintaining the open character of the north end. Please see the attached preliminary Grading, Drainage and Erosion Control Plan as well as the Wetland Determination Report prepared by John Oliver ~ Associates for reference. According to Section 30-1292 of the Etk River Code of Ordinances, the "!-1 district shall serve as a transition between more industrial uses and residential and other business uses. This district is appropriate for manufiacturing, warehousing, and similar industrial uses...These areas are intended to encourage the deveiopmen# of industrial uses which are clean, quiet, and free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, glare, or other poilutan#s." Tl~e GRE parcel stands as a buffer between the industrial facilities #o the south, the business park to the east and the residential uses to the west. GRE's development would provide for a more attractive and efficient use of the currently vacant parcel while minimizing the aesthetic effects to residents and businesses. The intended storage use by GRE is also compatible with the clean and quie# industrial uses intended by the Zoning Ordinance. Elk River Headquarters Generating Plant Expansion (P!D• 75-134-440611ega1 descriptiion. That part of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE'/4 of SEl4) ofi Sectron 34, Township 33, Range 26, Sherburne County, Minnesota, described as: Commencing at a point on the North line of said Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE%4 of SE'/4) a distance of 66.00 feet, as measured a# right angles, east of the northwest comer thereof; thence east along said North line for a distance of 176.00 feet; thence south parallel with the West line of said Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter {SE'/4 of SE'I} for a distance of S~.QU feet #o a point to be hereafter Known as „ ~, Point A for the purposes of this description, thence west parallel with said North line of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE'/ of SE'/~) for a distance of 176.00 fee# to intersect the East line of the West 66.00 fee#, as measured at right angles, ofi said Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE'/4 of SE'/4), said poin# of intersec#ion also being the ac#ual Point Of Beginning of the land to be hereby described; thence return east along said parallel line to said Point "A„; thence southeasterly parallel with the westerly line of the right of way of V.S. Highway No. 169 for a distance of 840.84 feet, more or less, to in#ersec# the South line of said Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE'/ of SE'/.); thence west along said South line for a distance of 424.29 feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of said West 66.00 feet of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (SE'/. of SE'14); thence north along said East line of the West 66.00 fee# for a distance of 797.17 fee#, more or less, #o the Point of Beginn"tng. Containing 5.5'1 acres, more or less. Subject to Basemen#s of record, if any.