Agenda - Planning Commission - 12/03/1996

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its adoption: introduc, ed the following resolution and moved for RESOLUTION g97-01- ADOPTING FINDINGS OF FACT # A ~SOLUTION RELATING TO A REQUEST FROM NORAM ENERGY MANAGE~TO EXPAND A NON-CONFORMING PROPANE AIR PEAKING PLANT ~ WHEREAS, NorAm Energy Management, hereinafter referred to as "APPlicant", has properly applied for a Conditional Use Permit to expand the pre-existing pr6pane air pealdng facility on the property generally known as 7615 173rd Avenue N.W. and legally described as follows: (the "site") All that part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 4, Township 32, Range 25, Anoka County, Minnesota lying east of a line parallel with and 700 feet west of the east line of said Southeast Quarter of the southwest Quarter and extending to the south line thereof (excluding therefrom the east 250 feet thereof) as measured between parallel lines (excluding easement of record). 5 NOW THEREFORE, BE IT" RESOLVED OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKA MINNESOTA, as follows: BY THE CITY COUNCIL COUNTY, STATE OF That NorAm Energy Management applied on November 12, 1996,-to the City of Ramsey ("City") for a conditional use permit to exp.and the pre-existing propane air peaking facility. That the Applicant appeared before the Ramsey planning Commission for a public hearing pursuant to §9.03.04 of the City Code on December 3, 1996, and that said public hearing was properly advertised and that the m~rmtes of the public hearing are hereby incorporated by reference. That the Site is approximately 13.5 acres in size and is zoned R-1 Rural Residential, for which utility facilities are not considered a permitted use. That without benefit of a special permit, 'the site has been used as a propane air peaking plant since 1976. That the Applicant is proposing to upgradfn, plant operations by the.. addition of a 30,000 GWC propane storage tank and a~ x 32' x Iff control building mounted on steel skids, and repIadng the vaporizer, blender and compressors, which have already been removed from the Site. That the purpose of the faciity is to inject a propane mlxmre into the natural gas distribution system to augment the system capacity dm'ing periods of severe weather. That the Applicant has stated that'the system operates approximately 20 days per year during a normal winter season.