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RESOLUTION NO. 05-184
RESOLUTION OF DENIAL
A RESOLUTION OF FINDING REGARDING THE APPLICATION
FOR AN AMEN ',I MENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000-2020
AND A REZONING FROM
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL (IG) TO TWO FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-3)
FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
6300 — 6312 CAMBRIDGE STREET
WHEREAS, on August 9, 2005, Julie L Murphy filed an application to amend
the Comprehensive Plan land use designation for property located at 6300-6312
Cambndge Street from Industnal to Medium Density Residential, and an amendment to
the Zoning Map to change the zoning from General Industrial (IG) to Two Family
Residential (R-3), and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing to consider the
request on October 5, 2005 and at the request of the applicant continued that hearing to
October 19, 2005 and November 16, 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 community facilities and service decisions affecting the City.
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 inject long range
considerations into determinations affecting short-range action, and
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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 bringing about significant savings in both private and public
expenditures, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan has taken due cognizance of the planning
activities of adjacent units of government, and
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 denial of the request on a vote of 5-0; and
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File No. 05 -50 -CP and Planning Case
File No. 05-51-Z are hereby entered into and made part of the public hearing record and
the record of decision for this case.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
St. Louis Park makes the following findings:
1. The City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the Planning
Commission (Case No. 05 -50 -CP and 05-51-Z); and
2. The City Council has considered the effect of the proposed Comprehensive Plan
Map amendment and Zoning Map amendment on the health, safety and welfare of
the occupants of the surrounding lands and finds the following:
a. The property has been guided Industrial since 1984 and zoned Industrial
since 1932;
b. The long term use of the property is planned for industrial based on the
site characteristics and surrounding land uses;
c. The comprehensive plan map and zoning map designations should be, and
were, determined through a public process involving the input of the
neighborhood, and a comprehensive, city wide land use analysis and not
solely determined by the financing options made available by mortgage
companies;
d. The property abuts other industrial property;
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e. The character of the area has not changed in any substantial way since the
property was originally guided and zoned Industnal;
f The property can be put to a reasonable use under its current Industrial
classification; and
g. The property's current legal nonconforming residential use also provides a
reasonable use of the property.
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 —
21 1 to change the land use designation at 6300-6312 Cambridge Avenue from Industrial
to Me. um Density Residential and the rezoning request from General Industnal (IG) to
R-3 — T o Family Residential is hereby denied.
Revie • es or Administration
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City 7 .ger Mayor
Adopted by the City Council December 19, 2005
Attest.
City Clerk
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