09/20/2010 Planning Commission Minutes

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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday, September 20,2010 6:30 o'clock p.m. than allowing a new, oversized building being constructed in its place. The adoption of Interim Use Permit standards would solve that issue. The Commission agreed on the following language to define historic building: "Historic building means by building or collection of structures deemed of importance to the history, architecture or culture of the City of Orono or Lake Minnetonka by the Orono City Council. This may include historical buildings or properties on, or deternuned eligible for, national, state, or local historical registers or inventories, such as the National Register of Historic Places,Minnesota Historical Society, and city or county registers,inventories, or surveys of historical or architecturally significant sites,places,or landmarks." Staff is proposing to adopt IUP standards within the Zoning Ordinance as well as include the historic building accessory structure size exemption within each appropriate district as an allowed interim use. Thus,the City would have the ability to impose conditions for which would sunset the use, such as the demolition of the historic building. Staff suggests that language similar to the language included in Staff s report be adopted to address interim uses. The Planning Commission should recommend approval or denial of the adoption of the new language defining a historic building and they should also recommend adoption or denial of an interim use permit ordinance. Feuss asked why an interim use permit is being recommended. Feuss stated her understanding is that if a historic building is relocated on the property, it will not be interim use. Curtis stated under current code,the building becomes an existing nonconformity that can be rebuilt in kind. The City currently does not have historic preservation standards. Staff is recommending approval of the exemption to the oversized accessory building chart. The exemption would be a historic building that would be allowed to be relocated onto a property regardless of its size,but that language is required in order to prevent the building from being razed at some point in the future and a different structure constructed in its place. The goal of the interim use pernut is to allow the building to be relocated but that it would contain a provision to sunset the historic building to prevent a different structure from being rebuilt in its place. Schoenzeit stated under the interim use permit,if the historic building goes away,the right to have a building in that location would also go away. Leskinen asked if the IUP would be available for other uses as well. � Curtis indicated they would only be adopting an amendment to the residential districts specifically allowing a historic building exemption. In the future,if the Planning Commission or City Council would desire something else to be an interim use,the language would already be in place and only some minor changes to the language would be necessary. Schoenzeit asked if the structure would need to meet hardcover and setback requirements. Page 14