12-04-1974 Council Meeting Minutes with PC

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1 MINUTES OF A COUNCIL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 4 , 1974 Page 24 Van Nest then shifted the discussion to an analysis COMMERCIAL AND of the present commercial and industrial zones INDUSTRIAL AREAS located within the Navarre area. He referred IN NAVARRE specifically to the Navarre area proposed zoning map for public hearing, December 18 , 1974 , on which he had outlined in red the various districts to be rezoned and had provided letters designating each parcel. In some instances, a letter is used for several parcels and in each case, the letters are given sub-number, i.e. L1, L2, L3 etc . Mayor Searles noted that commercial.T and�=�hopping�� facilities in Navarre serve Orono residents who are living in the nearby community. However, on both sides of Orono are regional shopping centers with a wide range of commercial services that service those citizens of Orono who live at the eastern half of the village, and those citizens who live on the westeIIn�and.;s�oe��n sections of the village. It was noted that the city of Long Lake provides neighborhood commercial facilities in the north central part of Orono, and Spring Lake and Mound are all used by the Orono residents who live in the western part of the city. At the outset, it was noted that the commercial and indus- trial centers other than one industrial center in the northern section of the village near the City of Long Lake, are located on an island, known as the Navarre area, and therefore each district is �within 1, 000 to 2, 000 feet of Lake Minnetonka. The Mayor noted that several years ago the village had asked the businessmen in the area and citizens in the area to prepare a report concerning the future of the presently zoned commercial areas. It was noted that Special Navarre Plan Force Study recom- mended that the existing commercially zoned property on the Navarre island be reduced in size to a more moderate area and that in the vicinity of the inter- section of Highways 15 and 19 the ��remaining open land use be used for low density residential or office building purposes to minimize traffic con- gestion and maximize the environmental protection of Lake Minnetonka. It was noted that any new use of the vacant property should be regulated in order to protect the lake := from excessively dense hard cover of the land area and to eliminate increase in trfffic volume. The Council members view any expansion of the hard cover, road size or traffic volume as detrimental to the lakeshore environment and the quality of the water in the lake itself. A review of the map indicates that there are only two major roads servicing this cdensely populated