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I-' The LMCD has used the property for storage of milfoil harvesters. The harvesters are currently stored in a parking area where the salt/sand storage facility is proposed. Hennepin County will continue to allow the LMCD to store the milfoil harvesters, but they will be relocated to a new parking area that would be constructed at the northwest comer of the property. The LMCD has 4 milfoil harvesters. The large parking area between the existing building and the south property line has been used as overflow parking for vehicles and boat trailers when the public landing are full. The overflow parking would remain as a continued use. Overflow parking only occurs in the spring/summer/fall mainly on weekends not to interfere with the winter road maintenance facility operation. Use of Salt/Sand Storage Buildine The proposed building would be approximately 7,840 square feet with a storage capacity of 2,000 tons made up of 1,000 ton annual salt storage amount and 1,000 ton salt/sand mix amounting to approximately one-third of the annual mixed usage. The building would provide for interior mixing and loading of materials. That operation is currently done on-site, outdoors. County staff has indicated the operations would reduce noise to surrounding neighborhoods and eliminating the salt and sand transported by stormwater runoff to the adjacent wetlands. The wetlands drain into a stormsewer pipe and are routed to Lake Minnetonka. Due to the proposed buildings capacity, Hennepin County has estimated approximately 60 round Uip truck runs annually would be eliminated and the salt/sand operations would occur during daytime hours. Zoning Code Amendment The Hennepin County facility has been in operation since the early 1960s. A 1970s rezoning changed the zoning from commercial to residential, although the use has not changed over that time. The use has remained as a non-conforming use in the LR-IC zoning district. Hennepin County has made an application to the City of Orono to request a code amendment that would allow a county maintenance facility to exist in the LR-IC zoning district as a conditional use. The LR-IC district permits any conditional use that is permitted in the R-1A zoning district (please refer to conditional uses for R-1 A in Exhibit D). Staff has suggested the following amendment to Section 10.25, Subdivision 4. Subd. 4. Conditional Uses. Within any "LR-IC" One Family Lakeshore Residential District, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses except by conditional use permit: A. Any conditional use as regulated in the "R-1 A" District except that Planned Residential Development shall not be limited to detached single family dwellings only. 02555 Hennepm County 3880 Shoreline Drive Zoning Code Amendment Conditional Use Permit Variances I 19 00 Page A I i III