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Approving a bridge resolution for a zoning study in District 9.
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WHEREAS, the City’s zoning ordinance, duly adopted pursuant to its delegated police powers, contains various land use district classifications including several classifications for residential-use districts which are defined by minimum lot-area per dwelling-unit density standards; and
WHEREAS, as provided under Minn. Stat. § 462.357, Subd. 1, the City’s residential-use zoning classifications are established upon legislative determinations that the use classifications will promote “public health, welfare, safety, morals and general welfare” and are well planned, are expected to be somewhat permanent, and are in conformance with the City’s Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, as required by Minn. Stats. §§ 462.355, Subd. 1a and 473.864, Subd. 2, the City, on February 24, 2010, duly updated its Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Land Use Chapter of the updated Comprehensive Plan sets forth various strategies to guide the City’s land use decisions including strategies related to the maintenance of the City’s “Established Neighborhoods.” Land Use Strategy 1.5 specifically provides that “the City should maintain the character of Established Neighborhoods” which, the Plan notes, are “characterized almost entirely by single-family houses and duplexes;” and
WHEREAS, on July 7, 2010, the City adopted a new District 9 Area Plan as an addendum to the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the District 9 Area Plan’s Housing Strategies calls for the preservation and improvement of existing housing and, in particular, calls for an assessment of impacts on Established Neighborhoods caused by converting single-family dwellings into multi-family dwellings; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is generally aware, and accordingly finds for the purposes of this interim ordinance, that Established Neighborhoods with residential structures originally constructed as single-family homes which have subsequently been con...
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