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<br />Meeting of the <br />Elk River Planning Commission <br /> <br />Held at the Elk River City Hall <br />Tuesday, January 23, 2018 <br /> <br />Members Present: Chair Eric Johnson, Commissioners Mike Nichols, Jill Larson-Vito, <br />Robert Rydberg, Alexander Feinstein, and Brad Thiel <br /> <br />Members Absent: None <br /> <br />Staff Present: Planning Manager Zack Carlton, Senior Planner Chris Leeseberg, <br />Planner BrieAnna Simon, Sr. Administrative Assistant/Recording <br />Secretary Jennifer Green <br /> <br />Also Present: Councilmember Jennifer Wagner, Council Liaison <br /> <br /> <br />1. Call Meeting to Order <br /> <br />Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, the meeting of the Elk River Planning <br />Commission was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chair Johnson. <br /> <br />2. Pledge of Allegiance <br /> <br /> The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. <br /> <br />3.1 Ordinance Amendment – Residential Dimensional Regulations <br /> <br />Ms. Simon presented the staff report. She explained staff’s evaluation of all the <br />residential properties and Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) noticing many <br />similarities, and the goals towards simplifying the residential dimensional regulations. <br />She indicated the similarities for front, side, and rear setbacks, with most of them <br />located in the PUD’s meet the existing regulations for Single Family Residential (R1- <br />c) She indicated changing them to a standard zoning district will reduce the number <br />of residential dimensional regulations altogether and those dimensions would be <br />outlined in city code, allowing residents an easy way to determine their property <br />setbacks. She reviewed the current and proposed maps. <br /> <br />Ms. Simon explained the second part of this review was to reduce the residential <br />zoning district from eight to six. The new proposed residential zoning districts will <br />loosen regulations in some areas of the city and simplify the residential zoning <br />regulations. She reviewed the proposed dimensional requirements for the six <br />new/modified residential zoning districts. <br /> <br />Ms. Simon and Mr. Carlton explained in greater detail one of the zoning districts <br />being proposed entitled “compact” is a result of the development community <br />requesting smaller lot sizes, noting 75’ and 80’ lot sizes are no longer financially <br /> <br />