12-04-1974 Council Meeting Minutes with PC

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� MINUTES OF A COUNCIL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 4 , 1974 Page 27 �. � this area presently. It was noted that the safety and welfare of the children in the area would be �promoted by rezoning the property and that the � prevention of the pollution of the ground water sources and Lake Minnetonka would be promoted also. � It was noted that to a11ow these areas to develop as commercial uses would force major road develop- � ment into the area in order to service the increased � traffic loads generated by such uses . Such an increase in road networks is virtually impossible � since the property is on the Navarre Island and the extension of additional highways to the area is � physically impossible. Moreover, it was noted that the various businessmens ' reports and other reports � before the Planning Commission and the Council in the past indicated that presently there is no adequate � use or demand for the vacant commercial property • in this part ot the village. . The discussion then shifted to that area marked AREA L-4 as area L-4 on the Navarre area map. This area is TO LR-1C , 1/2 ACRE presently zoned as B-1 commercial and will be re- zoned to LR-1C, 1/2 acre resi�ential. It was � noted that this property is presently being used for 1/2 acre residential uses. It was noted that � the land is not used for any commercial uses . The contour of the land is such that in order for it to be developed as commercial uses , i� would require major excavatians in that zone. Such excavations would create increased erosion into the lake and � would result in the diminution of real estate values in the surrounding property. It is doubtful � that the city would a11ow the owners of that pro- perty to complete major excavation in order to � remove the natural topography present. The area • immediately to the north ot the proposes area to be rezoned is presently used as residential. It was • noted that the p�operty itself because of the topo- graphy would be ideal for residential uses but � not for any corlmercial pu�poses . It was noted that there was theretore a mistake in the original zoning � of this property to commercial use. Moreover, the Council noted that to allow this property to be S developed as a conunercial use would result in an . intollerable increase in the traffic flow which is already present on County Road 15 . It was noted � that to allow this property to be developed as com- mercial would result in the continuing expansion � of the blight caused by the commercial uses in the area and the deleterious effect on the residential community surrounding the small pockets of cor,zmercial uses . � � � �