HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-03-12 TPC Ltr to Applicant TPC3601 Thurston Avenue N, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
Phone: 763.231.5840
Facsimile: 763.427.0520
TPC@a PlanningCo.corn
March 12, 2025
Emailed
Trung Nguyen
5702 Penrose Avenue N
Oak Park Heights, MN 55082
RE: Oak Park Heights - Conditional Use Permit for Transient Lodging/Short Term
Rentals— 5702 Penrose Ave North
TPC FILE: 236.05 — 25.01
Dear Mr. Nguyen:
Based upon your recent emails with Julie Hultman, Building Official, it has come to our
attention that you do not intend to live in the house at 5702 Penrose Avenue North. If
you do not actually occupy the house as your primary residence, you cannot rent it as
transient lodging/short term rental.
You can rent it out for long-term rentals without occupying the structure. The transient
lodging/short term rental requirements are part of the Section 401.15 Home
Occupations of the Zoning Ordinance. Below is the definition of home occupation.
Note that a home occupation requires the occupant of the dwelling unit to actually live
there.
Home Occupation: Any occupation or profession engaged in by the occupant
of a residential dwelling unit, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the
residential use of the premises and does not change the character of said
premises.
In that this is not a valid application, we cannot accept the application, and all the
application materials and fees will be returned to you.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at scott@planningco.com or 952.221.0547 with
any questions.
Sincerely,
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Scott D. Richards
(Planning Consultant to the City of Oak Park Heights)
c: Jacob Rife, Julie Hultman
Trung Nguyen — 2230 Oak Glen Gres, Stillwater, MN 55082
Julie Hultman
From: Julie Hultman
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:42 PM
To: Trung Nguyen
Cc: 'Scott Richards'
Subject: 5702 Penrose Ave N - Short Term Rental - Application Letter
Attachments: 5702 Penrose Ave N - Short Term Rental - Application Letter.pdf
Importance: High
Trung,
Please see the attached letter from contract City Planner regarding your application not being able to be
accepted.
Our Finance Department will prepare checks for the application fee and Home Occupation permit fees you paid in
the total amount of$175. Once I have those, I will send them and your original application materials to your
Stillwater address as the mail sent to 5702 Penrose Ave. continues to be returned to me from the postal service.
Sincerely,
Julie Hultman I Building Official
Planning &Code Enforcement
Office: 651.351.1661
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