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City <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Item # <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Michele McPherso~ctor of Planning <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />June 14, 2001 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Case No. OA 01-06 <br />Request by the City of Elk River to Include Government <br />Buildings and Facilities as a Conditional Use in the <br />Business Park District <br /> <br />6.16. <br /> <br />Request <br /> <br />The Council is asked to consider an ordinance amendment to add as a conditional use in the <br />Business Park District, government buildings and facilities. <br /> <br />Attachment <br /> <br />· Draft ordinance <br /> <br />Analysis <br /> <br />As the Council is aware, the City recently changed its definitions for government office and <br />government buildings and facilities. In doing so, the City created a nonconfoming situation <br />with the current Sherburne County Government Center. The government center is zoned <br />Business Park District and under the previous definitions, government offices were a <br />permitted use in that district. Once courthouses and jails were removed from the <br />government office definition and moved to the government buildings and facilities <br />definition, this rendered the County Courthouse and jail facility nonconforming. <br /> <br />In order to correct the nonconformity, staff is proposing that government buildings and <br />facilities be included in the Business Park District as a conditional use. This would then <br />allow the County to expand its facility with Planning Commission and City Council approval. <br /> <br /> <br />