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lour 1111.1siion: To work together to reiposibty grow our community, and to provide quality, coat -effective, and efficient government ierrlcas. CC Regular Session 4. 11. Meeting Date: 08/26/2014 By: Tom Olson, Community Development Information Title: Adopt Resolutions #14-08-141 and #14-08-142 Related to a Request for an Amendment to a Conditional Use Permit at the Property Located at 14650 Ferret St NW; Case of Faulk and Foster on behalf of Crown Castle International Purpose/Background: The City has received an application from Faulk and Foster on behalf of Crown Castle International (the "Applicant") to amend a Conditional Use Permit (the "Permit") that would increase the leased area at the property located at 14650 Ferret St NW (the "Subject Property") to accommodate a new equipment shelter. In accordance with the existing Permit, the leased area is fifty (50) feet by fifty (50) feet, or 2500 square feet, and contains a 165 foot self-supporting lattice tower and related equipment cabinets. As illustrated in Exhibit A, the amendment would increase the leased area by 648 square feet, or eighteen (18) feet by thirty-six (36) feet, in order to accommodate a new Verizon Wireless generator/equipment shelter. Note that this request does not involve placement of a new tower; it is strictly related to a request to expand the ground lease area to accommodate a new equipment shelter building. Notification: Staff attempted to notify all Property Owners within 350 feet of the Subject Property of the Public Hearing. A Public Notice was also advertised in the Anoka Union Herald. Observations/Alternatives: Currently, the Subject Property and most surrounding parcels are zoned COR-2; the parcel northwest of the Subject Property is zoned B-2 Highway Business District. The tower and associated equipment cabinets are nonconforming uses in the COR District. However, at the time of the issuance of the Permit (August 1996), the Subject Property and the surrounding parcels were zoned Industrial, which permitted the tower and cabinets as a conditional use. The amendment to the Permit would not change the status of the nonconforming use on the Subject Property, with the exception of the increased ground lease area. It also appears that the amendment would have no effect on the character of the of Subject Property's locality, which is shown in Exhibit B. Despite their current zoning, uses on the surrounding parcels are still industrial or automotive in nature. Current use of the Subject Property also met standards of the Industrial district when the Permit was issued. The minimum setback requirement from the front property line within Industrial districts was forty (40) feet; the leased area is at a distance of approximately fifty-five (55) feet. The proposed expansion would be on the south edge of the leased area, thereby maintaining the fifty-five (55) foot setback. Given the existing nonconforming use on the site and its continuance with the proposed expansion, the current setback is more appropriate than the requirement found in the design standards for the Subject Property's current zoning, COR-2, which is fifteen (15) feet as measured from building front to right-of-way.