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TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Chair Smith and Orono Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Senior Planning Coordinator <br />November 10, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: #2417 TOLD Development Co., 2380 Shadywood Road - Request for Amendment <br />to B-5 District Allov/ed Uses - Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: B-5, Limited Neighborhood Business District <br />Application: Request for an amendment to the B-5 Limited Neighborhood Business District to add <br />a dru gstore use to the list of allowed (permitted or conditional) uses. The B-5 District list of allowed <br />uses currently does not include any uses which could be broadly interpreted to include a flill-service <br />drugstore as that proposed. Such a use is allowed as a permitted use in the B-1 Retail Sales Business <br />District and in the B-3 Shopping Center Business District. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Application <br />B - Plat Map of Applicant's Proposed Development <br />C - Navarre Area Maps Depicting All Properties Zoned B-5. <br />D - Letter of Request <br />E - Zoning Code Section 10.44: B-5 Limited Neighborhood Business District (Updated to <br />include recent amendments) <br />F - Comprehensive Plan Excerpts Regarding Commercial Areas <br />B-5 District Applicability <br />Exhibit C depicts the 9 individual properties in Orono which are zoned B-5. While the applicant's <br />1.8 acre kite-shaped property abuts Shadywood Road, the remaining 8 properties all abut Shoreline <br />Drive and are rectangular in shape and significantly smaller, ranging in size from 0.31 acre to 0.76 <br />acre in area. The grouping of 3 parcels adjacent to the Hennepin County truck station totals 2.09 <br />acres, with a depth of about 200'. The furniture store is located on the middle parcel of these three. <br />The grouping of 4 developed parcels west of Navarre Avenue totals 1.54 acres, with a depth of <br />134.5'. TTie small office building east of Navarre Avenue is on a 0.31 acre parcel. <br />There are no properties zoned B-5 outside of Navarre. The total area contained within the B-5 <br />District is about 5.9 acres. By contrast, the total area of properties in Navarre zoned commercially <br />(B-1, B-3, B-4, B-5) is about 33 acres.