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Memo to Planning Commission/LU 01-01 &ZC 01-01 January 23,2001 Page 2 • Conditional Uses - R1 Single Family Districts • Allowed Uses — Business Park District • May 18, 1998 Staff report regarding ordinance amendment to amend Definition of Government Offices to include jails • October 20, 1997 City Council minutes • October 20, 1997 staff report regarding land use and rezoning amendment for the change from Medium Density Residential to Light Industrial and from R1c Single Family Residential to BP Business Park • January 18, 1994 staff report establishing Business Park District • 1990 Focus Area A Study • 1988 Growth Management Plan History In order to understand the overall ramifications of this request, the following history is provided for the Commission's understanding: In 1988, the City completed a Growth Management Plan in order to plan the City's long-term growth. As part of this plan, areas were identified for residential, commercial, and industrial developments. As can be noted on the attached potential industrial site assessment map, the area encompassed by the Elk Path Business Center was identified as having high potential for industrial • development. As a follow-up to the 1988 Growth Management Plan, the City completed a Focus Area Study in 1990. Focus Area A, the analysis of which is attached, included the area identified as Elk Path Business Center. Focus Area A was approximately 582 acres in size and was bounded by the Elk River on the north, Lake Orono on the east, the Mississippi River on the south and the western City limits. Within Focus Area A, a large component included future industrial development, including the Elk Path Business Center and areas to the east including the parcel of the Softpak development. As a result of the 1990 Focus Area Study, a portion of what is now Elk Path Business Center was rezoned to Business Park with an underlying land use designation of Light Industrial. The portion adjacent to County Road No. 30 was zoned and guided for residential development. In order to set the stage for high quality development, the City established a new zoning district entitled, "Business Park" in 1994. The Business Park Zoning District was intended to provide opportunities for higher quality industrial development whose primary focus would be to increase job generation and to utilize higher quality building materials in construction. In 1997, the City initiated a land use amendment and zone change to change the • area that had previously been identified as residential to Business Park with a Light Industrial land use designation. This was in response to the City S:\PLANNING\MICHMC\PLREPRTS\LU01-01.DOC