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CASE #3 CONSIDER RECOMMENDATION OF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO 1NirrI3~TE ACTION TO REVOKE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR DANNY'S ALUMINUM PROCESSING, INC. By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik Background: In 1990, th¢ Cityiof Ramsey issued an amended conditional use permit to Dan Karst (Danny's Aluminum ProceSsing, Inc.) to increase his aluminum processing operations by the addition of a second melt f~trna~e. At the time this conditional use permit amendment was under review, it was noted that~ Mt. K~st was storing feedstock (buses) on his adjacent lots. As a result of this discussion, one o~ the terms of the amended conditional use permit required Mr. Karst to either remove ali buses for apply for a site plan review by the Spring of 1991 to provide an exterior storage plan it~ aCCordance with City regulations. Accordingly, Mr. Karst did apply for a site plan review t° add~'ess Mse of his adjacent lots for exterior storage purposes and a building expansion. He also applied fbr a another conditional use permit amendment to allow him to disassemble engines and tmns ~a~issions within the existing building on the site; thus the reason for the building expansion. · ~ The Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed the site plan and the request for a conditional use permit amet~dment~ and recommended City Council approval of same. Following that, Mr. Karst requested thatiI- table his case from Council action until he could re-evaluate market conditions and th.e.i .mpact t°liis b~usiness as a result of a competitor establishing a similar facility in the immediate v~cmlty. For various reaso!~s, a year has passed and now Mr. Karst has revived his conditional use permit amendment :a~d siye plan. However, he has made substantial changes to what the Commission reviewed a y~ear ago. In addition to disassembling engines and transmissions within the building, he is reques~ng th~ ability to act as a redemption center to receive other non-hazardous metals and batteries for~cyc!ing purposes. As for the site plan, the expansion of the existing building has been eliminated anti he is proposing to construct a 13,000 square foot building on his adjacent lots to provide s~a~e for disassembly of engines and transmissions and space for acceptance of other non-hazardous: ma[erials not related to the aluminum processing operation. Rather than resuming his case wher~ it ~as in the process last year and forwarding Mr. Karst onto City Council for action, I felt that ithe changes to the conditional use permit amendment and site plan were substantial et~ough itc justify bringing Mr. Karst back to the Planning and Zoning Commission for an addifional:pUbli~ hearing and further consideration. In the interim, Commissioner Deemer of the Planning and Zoning Commission pointed out that Mr. Karst apPears tO be in violation of his current conditional use permit and that more than one year has passed sin~e P&Z acted on the request which was to be forwarded to Council. As a result of this disctlsSion~at the August 4 Planning and Zoning meeting, a motion was passed to recommend that Ci[y Council consider initiating action to revoke Mr. Karst's existing conditional use permit. - Recommendation: As I mentioned earlier in my report, Mr. Karst has revived his site plan review and conditional use permit amendment requests. Those applications were reviewed by the Planning and Zoning