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CLTY 01. OKUNO II 61 C4 M7 I U U6/C•1/yI U:5V LJ :U6/1U NO:193 <br /> • <br /> what is reasonable : <br /> In enacting a zoning ordinance or in amending an <br /> ordinance to rezone, the approach is legislative; what is <br /> involved is a kind of municipal planning in which a wide <br /> range of value judgments is considered. On the other <br /> hand, in granting or denying a special use permit, the <br /> inquiry is more judicial in character since the zoning <br /> authority is applying specific use standards set by the <br /> zoning ordinance to a particular individual use. <br /> Norm v, City of Coon Rapids, 313 N.W. 2d 409, 417 (Minn. 1981) . <br /> Thus, a zoning authority is less circumscribed by judicial <br /> oversight when it acts legislatively than when it acts in a quasi- <br /> judicial role. Id. <br /> Still, a municipal decisionmaking body has broad discretionary <br /> power to deny an application for a variance . VanLandschoot, 336 <br /> N.W. 2d 503 , 508-09 (Minn. 1983) . The fact that a court reviewing <br /> the action of a municipal body may have arrived at a different <br /> conclusion, had it been a member of the body, does rot invalidate <br /> the judgment of the city officials if they acted in good faith and <br /> within the broad discretion accorded them by statutes and the <br /> relevant ordinances . ;d, at 509 . Invariance cases, reasonableness <br /> is to be measured by the standard set out in the local ordinance . <br /> j at 508 n. 6 . <br /> The city argues that its decision to deny the shared dock <br /> proposal was legislative, and chat even if the decision were quasi- <br /> judicial, it still was reasonable. The city argues that, because <br /> under the Orono City Code an accessory use is limited to the <br /> exclusive use of the principal supporting structure , any dock on <br /> Tillotson' s land can be for the use of the people living in . <br /> Tillotson' s house only. <br /> -5 • <br /> - <br />