02-16-2010 Planning Commission Packet

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�J-1..:,l.y,•,,:y.�- . ��.� � � Date Application Received: 1/27/10 � Date Application Considered as Complete: 1/28/10 � 60-Day Review Period Expires: 3/30/10 To: Chair Kang and Planning Commission Members From: Evelyn Turner, City Planner Date: February 16, 2010 � Subject: #10-3447 Wayzata Couniry Club -200 Wayzata Boulevard - Conditional Use Permits for Wetland Alteration and Land Alteration and Revision to Conditional Use Permit for Wetland Alteration -Public Hearing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zoning District: RR-1B (2 acres) with conditional use permit for golf course Lot Area: 40+acres Application Summary: Wayzata Country Club requests a conditional use permit for wetland alteration and land alteration to convert a ditch with wetland qualities to a pond and to excavate to provide for replacement of the wetland. The Country Club also requests a revision to an existing conditional use permit for wetland alteration to change the location art of the re lacement wetland from a revious ro'ect. Staff Recommendation: Planning Deparhnent Staff recommends approval with conditions. Pertinent Zoning Ordinance Sections Sec. 78-911. Purpose. In order to give the district use regulation the flexibility necessary to achieve the objectives of this chapter, in certain districts, conditional uses are permitted, subject to the granting of a use permit. Conditional uses include those uses generally not suitable in a particular zoning district, but which may under some circumstances be suitable. When such circumstances exist, a conditional use permit may be granted. Conditions may be applied to issuance of the permit, and a periodic review of the permit may be required. The permit shall be issued for a particular use and not for a particular person. Because of their unusual characteristics, conditional uses require consideration so they may be located properly with respect to the objectives of this chapter and the comprehensive municipal plan and with respect to their effects on surrounding properties. In order to achieve these purposes, the council is empowered to grant and to deny applications for conditional use permits and to impose reasonable conditions upon the granting of these permits. Sec. 78-916. Granting of permit. (a) The planning commission may recommend and the council may grant a conditional use permit as the use permit was applied for or in modified form, if on the basis of the application and the evidence submitted the city makes the following findings: