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CASE # I I I I. I I I I I REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION FROM DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM; CASE OF TSM DEVELOPMENT, INC. By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik Background: The City currently has a moratorium on the development of certain land use sensitive parcels. The purpose of the moratorium is to protect the planning process related to updating the Comprehensive Plan and provide the City with a sufficient amount of time to adopt official controls to implement the new comprehensive plan. TSM Development has interest in property located in the northeast quadrant of County Road #116 and Ramsey Blvd. N.W. The property is subject ': · the moratorium until February 16, 2001. In June of 1998, the City received an application from TSM Development and Wayne Johnson to rezone the subject property from Industrial to R-3 Urban Residential. TSM was proposing to develop the property with townhomes and the R-3 zone allows up to 7 units per acre. At that time, the future land use map in the draft comprehensive plan proposed this property for development with mixed residential uses. TSM and Wayne Johnson were advised that the application for rezoning could not be accepted unless the property was excepted from the moratorium. Based on the opinion of Hoisington Koegler Group (HKG), Ramsey's consultant for the comprehensive plan update, the City Council denied the request for exception to the moratorium. Although the townhouse concept appeared to comply with the mixed residential land use in the comprehensive plan draft at the time, the memo from HKG. pointed out that the appropriate densities in tlfis land use category were not yet resolved. I I I Somewhere between June and November of 1998, the City Council changed the proposed land use of the subject property in the comprehensive plan draft from Mixed Residential to Urban Rural Residential Transition. In February of 2000, the City received another application from TSM to rezone the property from Industrial to K-3 Urban Residential. The application was returned to the applicant with an explanation that the property was still subject to a moratorium. On April 3, 2000, the City received a written request that the property be excepted from the moratorium. The following items are enclosed for your information: I I I Site location map Land Use Application dated June 2, 1998 Letter from Wayne Johnson dated June 9, 1998 Memo from Hoisington Koegler Group dated June 15, 1998 City Council meeting minutes dated July 14, 1998 Land Use Application dated February 7, 2000 with Concept plan Letter from Fafinski, Wallrich & Roes dated March 30, 2000