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( / ITEM 9 y of MEMORANDUM _ft/ it lktRiver TO: PLANNING COMMISSION FROM: STEPHEN ROHLF, BUILDING AND ZONING ADMINISTRATOR DATE: MARCH 22, 1994 S SUBJECT: UPDATE ON ENFORCEMENT OF CUSTOM MOTORS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, PUBLIC HEARING, CASE NO. ZC 94-02 A previous agenda item at this meeting is the re-zoning for Custom Motors from light industrial to single family residential. Besides the re-zoning, the Council asked staff to review two other issues regarding Custom Motors; screening and environmental clean up. Ill Assuming Custom Motors is re-zoned to single family, staff has the following recommendations to the City Council: 1. SCREENING The City's amortization period for a junk yard is 5 years. If Custom Motors is willing to enter into an agreement prepared by the City Attorney stating that they will relocate within the 5 year amortization period, staff recommends that they do no screening. Our feeling is that it would be better for Custom Motors to save the money they would put into screening and use it to relocate. 2. ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP Attached is a memo from John Lichter, City Environmental Consultant. John indicates his preliminary analysis of the Custom Motors site shows areas of contamination, but immediate clean up is probably not necessary. Staff recommends further testing and clean up of the site once the junkyard inventory is removed but prior to redevelopment of the site into residential. Testing and clean up will be made much easier once the inventory is gone and the type of • contamination should not migrate far within the 5 year amortization period. The condition that testing and clean up be postponed should also be made part of an agreement drawn up by the City Attorney. P.O. Box 490 • 13065 Orono Parkway • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441-7420 • Fax: (612) 441-7425