12-19-1974 Council Work Session Minutes with Planning Commission

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Council and Planning CoTranission Work Session, Dec. 19, 1974 -4 operations generate an intolerable amount of traffic on the , roads that are already inadequate to service the areas. '�Toreover, most of the B-2 areas ha.ve no public sanitary � sewer system to which the operations can hook up and it was a well docwnented fact that restaurants must have nublic � sanitary sewer hook ups in order to insure that the ground water supplies and the lake would not be polluted by the '� materials which are discharged by such a restaurant use. "toreover, it was noted that any restaurant use along the � lake results in increased hard cover and storr;► water run- � off prouleMs and the resulting pollution t}ierefror� into Lake Minnetonka. Also this basic residential la};e shore � land was set aside for only needed marina uses and should • not be diverted to other uses that are allowed in other use districts within the city. a 'I'he discussion then shifted to the general requirements of parking, outside storage and landscaping � areas. It was felt that additional restrictions were needed on outside storage as to the height of structures � allowed for such stora�e. All of the members present felt that the provisions of the proposed draft in all other respects were necessary in order to protect the lake from over-use, to protect the nearby residential uses from the blighting influence of the marina opera- �tions, and to insure the health, safety and welfare of t'�e citizens of Orono. Thereafter, the Council reviewed each section of the REVIEW OF PROPOSED proposed amendment to the Zoning Code. The Council AA'�i��,�]T found no need to cha.nge any of the wording of section 1 � and the Council discussed the alternatives of changing the non-conforming use language in section 2 from 500 to 750. The Council found no need to change any of the � �aording of the proposed section 4, The Council then dis- Residential Districts cussed section 5 of the proposed amendment and indicated that certain changes should be r�ade to the "purpose sections" of each residential district. The Council then discussed the proposed section 6 of the Business Districts M zoning amendment. It was noted by Councilmember Paurus that "pet stores" should be included as a permitted B=1 � retail and service business. OtherGvise, there were no changes proposed for the B-1 use district. The Council then discussed the B-2 lakeshore business district and B-2 concluded that the draft as proposed was acceptable in all respects. The City Attorney recommended changing some language in the B-2 section in order to insure the compatability of that language with other sections � of the Municipal Code. The proposed lanr�uage was dis- cussed '�y the memt,�ers present.