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RESOLUTION NO. 05-031
RESOLUTION OF DENIAL
A RESOLUTION OF FINDING REGARDING THE APPLICATION
FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000-2020
AND A REZONING FROM R-2 TO R-3
FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
4022 YOSEMITE AVENUE SOUTH
WHEREAS, on December 3, 2004, Nathan and Marcy Schultz filed an application to
amend the Comprehensive Plan land use designation for property located at 4022 Yosemite
Avenue South from Low Density Residential to Medium Density Residential, and an amendment
to the Zoning Map to change the zoning from R-2 Single Family Residential to R-3 Two -Family
Residential, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public heanng to consider the request on
January 5, 2005, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 was adopted by the City Council on
May 17, 1999 (effective September 1, 1999) and provides the following:
1 An official statement serving as the basic guide in making land use, transportation and
411) community facilities and service decisions affecting the City.
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2. A framework for policies and actions leading to the improvement of the physical,
financial, and social environment of the City, thereby providing a good place to live and
work and a setting conducive for new development.
3. A promotion of the public interest in establishing a more functional, healthful,
interesting, and efficient community by serving the interests of the community at large
rather than the interests of individual or special groups within the community if their
interests are at variance with the public interest.
4 An effective framework for direction and coordination of activities affecting the
development and preservation of the community
5. Treatment of the entire community as one ecosystem and to infect long range
considerations into determinations affecting short-range action, and
WHEREAS, the use of such Comprehensive Plan will insure a safer, more pleasant, and
more economical environment for residential, commercial, industrial, and public activities and
will promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and
WHEREAS, said Plan will prepare the community for anticipated desirable change,
thereby bnnging about significant savings in both pnvate and public expenditures, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan has taken due cognizance of the planning activities
of adjacent units of government, and
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WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan is to be periodically reviewed by the Planning
Commission of the City of St. Louis Park and amendments made, if justified according to
procedures, rules, and laws, and provided such amendments would provide a positive result and
are consistent with other provisions in the Comprehensive Plan, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission considered the staff report, the statements of the
applicant and public and recommended approval of the request on a vote of 4-1; and
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File No. 04 -68 -CP and Planning Case File
No. 04-69-Z are hereby entered into and made part of the public hearing record and the record of
decision for this case.
WHEREAS the City Council of St. Louis Park considered the staff report,
recommendation of the Planning Commission (Case No. 04 -68 -CP and 04-69-Z), statements of
the applicant and public, and on a vote of 7-0 moved that staff prepare a resolution of denial to
be considered on February 22, 2005.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St Louis
Park that the applicant's request for an amendment to Comprehensive Plan 2000 — 2020 to
change the land use designation at 4022 Yosemite Avenue South from Low Density Residential
to Medium Density Residential and the rezoning request from R-2, Single family residential to
R-3, Two family residential is hereby denied.
Revie ed for Administration
City Ma : ger
Attest:
City Clerk
Ado ted by the City Council February 22, 2005
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