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Resolution No. <br />Page 3 <br />13. The property is located on County Road 15 which <br />has heavy truck and car traffic moving at high rates of speed, <br />which condition is a hazard to traffic entering or leaving the <br />highway at this location and which condition is a hazard to any <br />pedestrian trying to cross the highway. <br />14. The property is located across County Road 15 from <br />Lake Minnetonka and a commercial marina, which marina already <br />contributes to traffic hazards and pedestrian crossings in the area. <br />15. The property is also located on Central Avenue which <br />is a residential street having moderate traffic flow which has <br />caused neighborhood complaints of excessive speed and pedestrian <br />safety hazards. <br />16. All of the property is zoned LR-lA, One Family <br />Lakeshore Residential, except for the easterly 70 feet of Lots <br />24 and 25 which are zoned B-1 Retail Sales Business District. <br />• 17. In 1974, when the City concluded years of comprehensive <br />planning and revisions to previous zoning districts, boundaries, and <br />provisions, all of this property was to have been zoned LR-lA. <br />18. At that time, the service station would have been <br />zoned LR-lA with a conditional use permit issued for continued <br />operation of the station as a legal non -conforming use. <br />19-. The Crystal Bay area historically included more <br />commercial enterprises which have all ceased to exist leaving this <br />service station as the only/remnant of such a neighborhood commercial <br />center. <br />20. In 1974, the Planning Commission and Council determined <br />that the Crystal Bay Area could no longer support B-1 commercial uses. <br />21. Because all of the other B-1 uses had disappeared, <br />the Comprehensive Plan called for total zoning as residential <br />consistent with the actual use of the land. <br />22. The Planning Commission and Council at that time had <br />no objection to continued use of the gasoline service station as it <br />• had always operated, but they determined that the property would not <br />support any other B-1 use consistent with the public health, safety <br />and general welfare. <br />