12-04-1974 Council Meeting Minutes with PC

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MINUTES OF A COUNCIL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 4 , 1974 Pa�e 31 �The subject property presently is being used for non-commercial purposes. There is one small building which would qualify as a B-1 commercial use presently and will be allowed to continue as a nonconforming use in the future. The Council and Planning Commission members next AREA 0-2 discussed the property marked as 0-2 . That B-1 to B-4 property is presently zoned B-1 commercial and will be rezoned to B-4 commercial . It is located along County Road 19 and is on the south side of that road. Presently the property is being used for a bank, a clinic and an office building. However, it is primarily vacant land. Therefore, the rezoning of this property to a B-4 will change the zoning classification to allow for the uses * that are presently in that area. It should be noted that this area marked as 0-2 is across the street from another area that is presently zoned commercial that will be rezoned to a B-4 commercial. All of these areas are adjacent to County Road 19 which is the major traffic thoroughfare from the south eastern part of the village and from the City of Excelsior into Navarre. The traffic � studies have shown that a B-4 district will generate approximately l�� of the traffic that . the B-1 commercial will generate. County Road 19 is already overly traveled and cannot be up- graded in the future. Any additional traffic in this area would result in traffic hazards for all those using that road. Moreover, a B-4 commercial use in this area would more likely involve less hard cover and would therefore not cause as fast a storm water run-off into the lake as B-1 uses in this area would cause. It was noted that the owners of the property in this area had previously expressed � a preference for a B-4 designation for this property to allow for the development of office uses . The property across the street from the area marked AREA 0-3 as 0-2 was next discussed. This property is marked B-1 to B-4 on the map as 0-3. This property is presently zoned B-1 commercial and will be rezoned to B-4 commercial. The property is approximately 8 acres in size. The Fresh Water Biolo�ical institute uses 5 acres of the property and is a B-4 type use presently. The remaining 3 acres is vacant. Therefore, the reclassification of this property from a B-1 to a B-4 would result in the continuation of the use of this property as it is presently being used, i.e. office use. Again the traffic c�nsiderations are of paramount importance to the village in the � rezoning of this property. Moreover the property is contiguous to the residential property located