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ITEM 5. <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> City11 fof <br /> in) • <br /> River TO: Mayor and City Council <br /> FROM: Pat Klaers, City Adminyr <br /> DATE: April 5, 1995tc Application'Standards <br /> A few years ago the City Council approved a rezoning request to PlarmPd . <br /> Unit Development and also changed the underlying land use to commercial <br /> for an area of the'City thaf.is now know as Elk Park Center. ,This is the area <br /> north of the schools east of Jackson Avenue and west of Highway 169. <br /> After this rezoning request was approved, a development plan was submitted <br /> , for the 'conditional use permit (CUP). When the plan was reviewed, it was <br /> met with public concern, input, and, in some cases, opposition. The plan for <br /> the CUP was also met by some concern and opposition by the City Council. <br /> Some council members and citizens indicated that they did not know that an <br /> Elk Park Center type of project was going to be submitted when the rezoning <br /> was approved. During the review of the Elk Park Center plan, some <br /> members of the public and the Council did not like the fact that the land was <br /> already rezoned and, to a certain degree, approval of any reasonable <br /> development plan was legally required. <br /> During the review of the Elk Park Center project, the City Council directed <br /> staff to no longer Process any rezoning requests to Planned Unit <br /> Development without the development plan for the CUP being submitted at <br /> the same time. The City Council directed staff to process the rezoning <br /> application and the CUP application simultaneously as a complete package <br /> • so that .everyone would know what would be happening on a parcel of <br /> property once Council approval was obtained. This is the approach that staff <br /> , , <br /> has adopted and worked on with land owners ever .since Council direction <br /> . _ <br /> was received. This is how staff has recently worked with the owner and <br /> developers of the Earl Hohlen trailer court area. This direction was given by <br /> the Council so that, for example, the City would not get in a situation in the <br /> future where a Planned Unit Development rezoning request would get <br /> approved for what everyone believed would be a Cub food store and later see <br /> the developnaent plan show a Menards. <br /> Mayor Duitsman has requested that the Council revisit their position of <br /> requiring a plan for a CUP at the same time as the rezoning request to <br /> 13065 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 490 • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441-7420 • Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br />