Agenda - Planning Commission - 05/03/2018

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Regular Planning Commission 5. 2. Meeting Date: 05/03/2018 By: Chloe McGuire Brigl, Community Development Information Title: PUBLIC HEARING: Consider Ordinance #18-09 Amending Conditional Uses in the H-1 Highway 10 Business District (Project No. 18-113); Case of Baker White Inc. Purpose/Background: The City of Ramsey has received an application for an ordinance amendment to allow light manufacturing as a conditional use in the H-1 Highway 10 Business District. Staff has intended to look at the permitted and conditional uses in this district as part of the larger Highway 10 corridor effort. This application has prompted moving this topic forward sooner than previously anticipated. After the Comprehensive Plan Update, Staff will still look at the corridor as a whole and consider permitted, conditional, and accessory uses. Notification: Staff attempted to notify all property owners within the H-1 Highway 10 Business District via standard U.S. mail and published the Notice of Public Hearing in the Anoka County UnionHerald. Observations/Alternatives: City Code Section 117-120 (H-1 Highway 10 Business District) currently outlines permitted, conditional, and accessory uses in the district. The intent of the H-1 Highway 10 Business District is to allow for uses that minimize traffic, vehicular access, and facilitate orderly transition of the corridor while allowing the property owners the ability to utilize their property for economic benefit until such time as the U.S. Highway 10 transportation system improvements are initiated. Staff has researched similar ordinances in Brooklyn Park, Blaine, and Champlin and created an exhibit (attached) outlining their ordinances related to light manufacturing along a major highway corridor. Brooklyn Park allows manufacturing with no outdoor storage in their Highway Industrial District. Blaine allows manufacturing with no outdoor storage in their I-1 and I-2 districts along Highway 10. Champlin also allows manufacturing in their I-1 district along Highway 169. The H-1 District presently does allow, as an accessory use, outside storage for materials and equipment accessory to the principal use under certain conditions. Conditions include: • Shall not constitute more than 20 percent of the gross lot area. • Shall be screened on all sides with 100 percent opaque screening of wood, masonry, or maintenance free material, or other means of screening as approved by the city council. Chain link fencing of any type will not be permitted. • Shall be surfaced with bituminous or concrete if to be located in the side yard. • Shall be located in the side or rear yard only. • Storage area may be surfaced with Class V Gravel in the rear yard provided that: • The gravel depth must be at least two inches. • The storage area must be setback at least 20 feet from public rights of way. • The storage area must be setback at least 35 feet from adjacent residential properties.