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After that approval, the City Council directed staff to remove educational uses as an allowed use in the Business Park zoning district, and all three Spectrum Facilities along Industrial Circle have been considered legal non- conforming uses since that change. The school has continued to operate under the legal non-conforming status, but has recently been reviewing possible changes to their middle and high school buildings to support their academic and sports programming. The request does not include an increase in the number of students (1,000 students in grades 6 to 12), which was permitted with their last approval in 2017. Their proposal to establish a PUD would only support the construction th of additional facilities on the current middle and high school properties. The 6 grade building, which is part of a larger industrial condo building, would not be included in the PUD district and would continue to operate as a legal non-conforming use. Approval of the PUD district will provide spectrum with an opportunity to grow within the current property boundaries of the middle school building (17823 Industrial Circle), and a proposed new lot for the high school building, to be created with the plat of Elk River SBC Addition. Once the PUD has been approved and recorded, future building or site additions, not supporting additional students, will require an administrative site plan review and a building permit. PUD Concept Plans The current PUD concept plans include an addition of an approximately 36,000 SF field house and a 13,000 SF classroom addition to the middle school building, remodeling of the existing high school gymnasium, a recreation field and parking expansion west of the high school, and a maintenance and storage garage. The submitted concept plans show a general layout and location of the uses, but the final plans may differ from these concepts and will require subsequent review and approval by city staff. Building materials, design choices, parking standards, and setbacks must match the requirements of the Business Park district to ensure continuity with the surrounding industrial properties. Staff reserve the right to require parking and traffic analysis for any future additions to verify traffic from the school will not detrimentally impact the operation of the surrounding industrial uses. Applicable Regulations Zone Change In reviewing a proposed amendment, consideration shall be given to existing conditions within the area directly and indirectly affected by the proposal, the conservation of property values, the use to which the property affected is being devoted at the time, and relevant provisions, if any, in the land use plan. The current middle and high school parcels are zoned BP (Business Park). The outlot west of the high school parcel, a portion of which is included in the proposed plat of Elk River SBC Addition is zoned I-1 (Light Industrial). The requested rezoning includes the existing middle school parcel and the proposed high school parcel. The rezoning to PUD must occur after approval of the Elk River SBC Addition plat. The proposed uses on these parcels would not change, but the request supports expansion of existing use on the same sites they currently have approval to operate. The student count will not change, and the overall impact to the surrounding parcels will be minimal. Conditional Use Permit/PUD City ordinances outline the process for reviewing a proposed PUD project and include a series of standards that the proposal should be evaluated against. Sec 30-1564 outlines these standards as follows: