Agenda - Council - 09/08/1981 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

I 1612 · ,fl,2} 224-2fl4~ · I I I I August 26, 1981 Lloyd Schnelle, City Administrator City of Ramsey City Hall Now Then Boulevard Ramsey, Minnesota 55303 In re~ Marx Addition and James Refrigeration Centlemen, I I I I I I I I I It is my understanding from the meeting held on the 25t~, that the Council desires an impact or fact statement f~om staff. I write this letter with regard to that question. It would appear from the reading of the ordinance itself, that a superette without two gasoline pumps is an allowable use under the ordinance without any requirement or permission from the City. If this is so, then the City has already determined what impact it has on the rest of the community by its zoning. People who had opposed it or opposed the granting of any use permit on the basis of the superette would have no right to oppose it, because it is zoned that way. It seems that their contention is two things, (1) an increase in traffic, and (2) a danger to child- ren at the school. The sbho~l authorities inform us that children are to be kept on school grounds during school hours and for the most path are bused in and bused out. If the superette.can.be allowed anyway and is an attraction for children, it would be an attraction regardless of the pumps. The real question boils down then to whether or not the two gasoline pumps have an adverse impact on the community. There are several areas where these are located andare located because of zoning of commercial. The arguments concerning litering are not a factual situation in the other two locations. The other arguments of impact are not really germane as far as the children are concerned. They certainly aren't goingto have.children cross the street for gasoline purchasing. There would be automobile trafFic--they would drive in to buy groceries and perhaps gasoline. In view of the allowable uses which permits restaurants with seating capacity and other forms, it would seem to me that the other forms can take the form of all kinds of retail stores that are allowable, like beauty shops, etc., that draw traffic in all during the day. The same argument could be made against those as can be made with regard to the super- ette, and one would be allowed and the other not allowed because of the addition of two pumps. While it may be the contention that a tax variable base is not an issue, and with all due respect to those who feel that it is not an issue, we feel that a variable