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Request for Action <br />To <br />Item Number <br />Mayor and City Council <br />10.6 <br />Agenda Section <br />Meeting Date <br />Ijanuary4, <br />Prepared by <br />Work Session <br />2016 <br />Chris Leeseber , Senior Planner <br />Item Description <br />Reviewed by <br />Focused Area Study <br />Zack Carlton, Planning Manager <br />Reviewed by <br />Cal Portner, City Administrator <br />Action Requested <br />Review and discuss the proposed uses in the FAST District. <br />Background/Discussion <br />In November of 2014, the City Council reviewed a request for an ordinance amendment to establish the <br />FAST district, a new zoning district that would encompass the Focused Area Study (FAST). The <br />Planning Commission reviewed the proposal over three meetings and unanimously recommended <br />approval of the request in November of 2014. <br />The Council asked that the item come back during two work sessions with half of the eight sub -districts <br />being discussed at each meeting. The council reviewed the first four in April 2015 and had no concerns. <br />For the work sessions, the council requested the following: <br />1. Provide maps of the study area as part of the packet. <br />2. Identify existing business uses in the sub -districts, and what impacts the amendment will have. <br />The four sub -districts being reviewed during this work session are: <br />■ Station Area Village <br />■ River West Residential <br />■ East Elk River Gateway <br />■ Hillside Heights <br />Attached are two exhibits identifying the Current Uses vs. Proposed Uses and the Proposed Uses by Sub - <br />districts. <br />Station Area Village <br />Much of the Station Area Village is governed by Planned Unit Developments (PUD). There is no <br />proposal to rezone any lots that are currently zoned PUD. Light manufacturing and warehousing are <br />currently allowed but are recommended not to be allowed as it does not meet the visions and goals of <br />this sub -area. Two properties in this district are currently zoned Light Industrial with light manufacturing <br />and warehousing uses. If approved, these properties would be legal non -conforming uses, and allowed to <br />continue operation as long as they like. <br />River West Residential <br />Only one property would be rezoned to a non -conforming use, the former Saxon site. It is currently <br />zoned C-3 Highway Business, but has an underlying land use of Residential. The proposed High Density <br />""'ATURE] <br />0MERRE0 0C <br />'m <br />