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� <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> To: Mayor and City Council <br /> Bill Wells, City Administrator <br /> From: Mike Gaffron, Asst. City Admin. - Long Term Strateg���� <br /> Date: March 23, 2009 <br /> Subject: Orono Montessori, 850 Wayzata Boulevard - Request for re-guiding to institutional <br /> List of Exhibits <br /> A - Letter of Request <br /> B - Memo and Exhibits of 12-8-08 <br /> Michael Kuruvilla, owner of Orono Montessori, has requested that his property be re-buided from <br /> Residential Use to Institutional Use, to allow inclusion in the MUSA in order to be eligible for <br /> connection to the municipal sewer system. Council may recall that back in November 2007 Met <br /> Council staff sug�ested that such a land use change "would assure the (Met) Council that the newly <br /> added MUSA will not be converted to low density residential in the future without further (Met) <br /> Council review and approval". <br /> This request can be added to the CMP update without a separate public hearing process because it is <br /> simply a single site being reguided to reflect the actual religious & educational use that has been <br /> ongoing on the site for many decades. The CMP Land Use Plan doesn't discuss "Institutional Use" <br /> as a separate category, although the Land Use Plan Map has always shown a variety of properties as <br /> Institutional (AKA "Public and Semi-public Use). I will be preparing a short section of CMP text <br /> defining the Institutional category. Institutional Use by definition is land used for religious, <br /> governmental, educational, social, cultural or major health care facilities with overnight stays. <br /> Examples include hospitals, schools, places of worship, cemeteries, city halls, museums, and county <br /> and state fairgrounds. The category includes all publicly owned land that is not clearly in any other <br /> category (e.g. not in office,parks, or industrial, etc.). <br /> Technically, most of our Institutionally-guided lands are in Residential zoning districts, and the <br /> institutional uses are typically either an allowed use (i.e. City buildings) or a conditional use (i.e. <br /> schools, churches, etc.). Because the Montessori operates under an existing CUP, no rezoning is <br /> necessary. <br /> The timing of this request is such that approval by Met Council would not occur until such time that <br /> the entire CMP update is approved, i.e. sometime this fall. Additionally, Council has in hand the <br /> prepared Plans and Specs for the Myrtlewood Utility Project that purposely do not include design <br /> work for the actual extensions that would serve Orono Montessori and the Comforts of Home sites. <br /> Items for Discussion <br /> 1) Does Council still support the re-guiding to institutional? <br /> 2) Had Kuruvilla agreed to this change last May when he initially discussed his situation with <br /> Council, we could have completed his MUSA amendment by now. However, given the poor <br /> timing, we expect the Myrtlewood project as designed will be completed before Orono <br /> Montessori is in the MUSA. Is there any desire to revise the Myrtlewood project to include <br /> Kuruvilla, or should this become an element of the extension contemplated by the Comforts <br /> of Home group? I am waiting for a return call from CofH to confirm they still plan to move <br /> ahead with their project - they did purchase the property at 875 Wayzata Blvd. in December. <br />