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River <br /> <br />Item #6.4 <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Chris Leeseberg, Planner <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />August 18, 2003 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Request by the City of Elk River for an Ordinance Amendment, <br />Amending Chapter 30, "Land Development Regulations", to <br />Establish a Downtown District and Standards <br /> <br />Request <br /> <br />The City Council is asked to consider an amendment to Chapter 30 "Land Development <br />Regulation", to establish a Downtown District and Standards. <br /> <br />Attachments <br /> <br />· Area of Proposed District <br />· Proposed Definitions <br />· Proposed Ordinance Language <br />· HRA Minutes of March 24, 2003 & June 30, 2003 <br />· HPC minutes of July 10, 2003 <br />· MetroPlains September 12, 2002 Comments to Standards <br />· MetroPlains August 11, 2003 Response to Standards (retyped & original) <br /> <br />Overview <br /> <br />The intent of the Downtown District is to preserve the distinctive character which currently <br />exists wkh the appearance that there are multiple buildings that are distinctly different from <br />one another yet will allow a uniform mass of building with the appearance of vertical <br />separation. <br /> <br />Staff composed a rough draft of guidelines and brought them before the Planning <br />Commission twice for review and then for a third time in a joint meeting with the Heritage <br />Preservation Commission (H2PC). The guidelines were also presented to the Rivers Edge <br />Downtown Business Association and shared multiple times with MetroPlains (the developer <br />selected for the downtown project) and JLG Architects (the architect MetroPlains selected). <br /> <br /> <br />