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3. 5. 6. 7. Rczoning of the property from RR-IB One Family Rural Residential to B-6 Highway Commercial District (PUD) for a medical office use would be in keeping with the 2000-2020 Orono Community Management Plan (CMP) which guides the area in which the property is located, from Willow Drive to Old Crystal Bay Road between Highway 12 and Kelley Parkway, for professional office use. Professional office use is a permitted use in the B-6 District. Per Municipal Zoning Code Section 10.52, minimum area for a rczoning in the Highway 12 Corridor is 5 acres. The property is nominally 2.0 acres in area; the site was created in 1984 to accommodate a branch of the Hennepin County Library, which was never built. The City of Orono purchased the site in 1996 for temporary public works use and as a means of controlling the future development of the site. Because the site exists as a separate parcel and the proposed use conforms to the CMP and the B-6 district, an area variance to allow rczoning of the site is reasonable. Such a rczoning is unlikely to have negative impact on the adjacent 2.S acre vacant lot, since that parcel is also guided for professional office use. Other properties abutting or near the property arc used for or planned for uses which are generally compatible with the proposed office use. North of Kelley Parkway is the Orono municipal complex including administrative offices, police department and public works facilities to the northeast. Directly cast is a vacant 2.5 acre parcel guided for professional office use. To the south across Highway 12 is the Orono industrial park. To the west across Old Crystal Bay Road is the Orono Schools campus. Thu applicant has provided preliminary plans attached to this resolution as Exhibits A and B including site plan, grading plan, utility plan and landscaping plan (all dated 5-17-02) and conceptual building construction plans (dated 4-17- 02) which the Council finds are sufficient to indicate the intent of the developer and the potential impacts of the project. The proposed site plan meets the general access standards developed for the Highway 12 corridor, in that all access is directly to Kelley Parkway, and trail links are provided. An existing 8' wide bituminous trail which is part of the Orono comprehensive trail system is located within the property along Old Crystal Bay Road. The City wishes to maintain this trail in its current Page 2 of 12 II n III ■ Tfri