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Agenda Item Title: fine Grove Gardens — Findings of Fact & Resolution for Denial
Time: 10 min utes
Eric John Administrator
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Background/Justification (Please indicate if any previous action has been taken or if other public
bodies have advised):
At the March 29',2005 City Council Meeting, the Council voted (3-2) to deny approval of the
Pine Grove Gardens rezoning and comprehensive plan amendment. The Council directed staff
to prepare Findings of Fact (4- 1) in appropriate resolution form for the subsequent Council
meeting (April 1 2th, 2005). Accordingly, such resolution is attached and as prepared by Scott
Richards.
Attachments to the resolution will be included in the final document prepared far signature.
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CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF OAK PARK IWIGHTS
wAS11INGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA
WHRREAS, the City of oak Park Heights has received a request from Oak lark
Heights Development LLC for a Comprehensive Flan reap change from residential business
transitional to medium density residential and a zoning change from 0, Open Space
Conservation to R -3, Multiple Family Residential District for property on Oakgreen Avenue and
north. of 58 th Street; and after having conducted a public hearing relative thereto, the ]Planning
Commission of Oak Park Heights recommended that the request be approved with conditions.
The City Council makes the following findings of fact and resolution.
follows, to wit.
1. The real property affected by said application is legally described as
SEE ATTACHMENT A
and
2. The applicant has submitted an application and supporting
documentation to the Community Development Department consisting of the following items:
and
SEE ATTACHMENT B
3. The subject site is designated as residential business transitional and zoned
o, open Space Conservation which will not allow the project as proposed by Oak park Heights
Development LLC; and
4. A Comprehensive Flan neap change to designate the property as medium
density residential and a rezoning to R -3, Multiple Family Residential District would be required
to allow the project to move forward through the Planned Unit Development and plat process;
and
5. City staff prepared a planning report dated March. 4, 2005 reviewing the
request by the applicant for the 26 unit townhome project to be known as Pine Grove Gardens;
and
6. Said report recommended that the Planning Commission and City Council
review the Comprehensive Plan change and rezoning request prior to the Planned Unit
Development and plat consideration; and
7. The Planning Commission held a public hearing at their March 10, 2005
meeting, took comments from the applicants and public, closed the public hearing, and
recommended that the request be approved with conditions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR
T CITY OF OAK P ARK HEIGHTS THAT T CITY COUNCIL DENIES THE
FOLLOWING REQUEST:
A. The application submitted by Oak Park Heights Development LLC for a Comprehensive
Plan map change from residential business transitional to medium density residential and
a zoning change from O, Open Space Conservation to R -3, Multiple Family Residential
District for property on Oakgreen Avenue and north of 58 Street, and affecting the real
property as follows:
SEE ATTACHMENT A.
Be and the same as hereby denied by the City Council of the City of Oak Park Heights subject to
the following findings of fact:
1. The subject property is transitional in nature based upon current and future land uses.
There is no residential neighborhood directly abutting the property. Future land use is
more suited to commercial or mixed land use.
2. In that area east of Oakgreen Avenue, commercial or mixed land uses are appropriate for
the area south of the xcel Energy power lines which is consistent with the potential of
commercial development to the north.
3. Potential right -of- -way required by MnDOT for Oakgreen Avenue would adversely
impact residential development of the subject site. Com aercial development or mixed
land use would be more appropriate if a portion of the property is required for MnDOT
right-of-way.
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Denied by the City Council of the City of Oak Park Heights this 29" day of March 2005.
David Beaudet, Mayor
ATTEST:
Erie A. Johnson, City Administrator
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