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dity of E iver TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: ITEM 5.8. MEMORANDUM Planning Commission Scott Harlicker, Assistant Planner June 25, 199~. City of Elk River Request for Zone Change from Rla (Single Family Residential) to Il(Light Industrial) Public Hearing Case No. ZC 96-10 Request Consider a request by the City of Elk River to rezone approximately 60 acres of the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 14 lying north of Highway 10 and south of 165th Avenue from Rla (Single Family Residential) to 11 (Light Industrial). Overview This rezoning request was tabled because of concern about the impacts on the Cargill Animal Nutrition Center. The rezoning will affect a portion of the property that was included in the Conditional Use Permit granted m May 1995 for the operation of a feedlot. The 60 acres of Cargill's property affected by the rezoning is a field and contains a caretakers residence, the actual research faciliW is not affected by this rezonmg and it is staff's opinion that the nutrition center can continue operation as a conditional use, at the current location, under the conditional use permit that was issued in 1995. In a related matter, there has been discussion about how accurately feecUot describes the actual operation of the nutrition center. To address that issue staff is working with Cargill in drafting a new definition, ~nimal nutrition and agricultural research, which will better describe the operations of the Cargill Animal Nutrition Center. It is intended to be included as a conditional use in the A1 (Agricultural Conservation) and Rla (Single Family Residential) zones. 13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 ° Elk River, MN 55330 ° (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425