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'ity of <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor & City Council <br /> <br />Scott Harlicker, Planning Assistant <br /> <br />July 15, 1996 <br /> <br />Request for Ordinance Amendment by the <br />City of Elk River to Establish New Use <br />Entitled "Animal, Nutrition, and <br />Agricultural Research", Public Hearing <br />Case No. OA 96-9 <br /> <br />Issue <br /> <br />Consider a request by the City of Elk River to amend Section 900.08 and Section <br />900.12 of the City Ordinance to include a definition for Animal, Nutrition and <br />Agricultural Research and include it as a conditional use in the Rla and A1 <br />zoning districts. <br /> <br />Attachments <br /> <br />Ordinance No. 96- <br />Report to Planning Commission dated June 25, 1996 <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />In May 1995, a conditional use permit was granted to Cargill for their animal <br />nutrition center. The conditional use permit was for a feedlot and was issued for <br />their existing facility on the south side of 165th Avenue and the proposed <br />expansion of that facility. At the time it was felt that their facility best fit the <br />definition of a feed lot which is defined as, <br /> <br />"A confined area used for housing or feeding poultry or livestock where <br />substantial amounts of animal waste will be generated, but not including <br />barns or pens which are necessary uses incidental to a farming operation." <br /> <br />This definition, it turns out, does not accurately describe the operations of <br />Cargill's facility. To classify the nutrition center as a feedlot is misleading. One <br />aspect of the operation fits the zoning code definition of a feedlot, but the <br /> <br />13065 Orono Parkway ° P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · (612) 441-7420 ° Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br /> <br /> <br />