Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/27/2023

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1 abutting properties. Public roads include township, county, and municipal roads and highways that 2 serve or are designed to serve flows of traffic between communities or other traffic generating 3 areas. 4 5 959 Administration 6 (A) Organization provisions. 7 (1) The provisions of this subdivision shall be administered by the city's zoning authority. 8 (2) The Planning Commission shall act upon all questions as they arise in the administration of 9 this subdivision, to hear and decide appeals; and to review any order, requirement, decision 10 or determination made by the zoning authority, who is charged with enforcing this subdivision 11 as provided by Minnesota Statutes. 12 (3) Permit fees and inspection fees as may be established by the annual fee schedule shall be 13 collected by the zoning authority for deposit with the city and credited to the appropriate 14 general fund. 15 (4) Conditional Use Permits and Planned Unit Developments require a 30-day notice prior to the 16 public hearing to the Department of Natural Resources. 17 (B) Substandard lots and uses, nonconforming uses. 18 (1) Substandard lots. 19 a. Lots of record in the office of the county recorder on the effective day of enactment of 20 this subdivision that do not meet the dimensional requirements of this Code shall be 21 allowed as building sites; provided that such use is permitted in the land use district; 22 the lot was in separate ownership from abutting lands on the date of enactment of this 23 Code; and all sanitary and dimensional requirements are complied with to the greatest 24 extent practicable. 25 b. If in a group of two or more contiguous lots under single ownership any individual lot 26 does not meet the lot width requirements of this Code, such individual lot cannot be 27 considered as a separate parcel of land for purposes of sale or development, but must 28 be combined with adjacent lots under the same ownership so that the combination of 29 lots will equal one or more parcels of land each meeting the lot width requirements of 30 this Code, except that such lots which meet or exceed 60 percent or more of the lot 31 width standards of these regulations may be considered as a separate parcel of land for 32 the purpose of sale or development, if on -site sewage disposal systems can be installed 33 so as to comply with these regulations. 34 (2) Nonconforming uses. 35 a. Nonconforming uses. Uses which are prohibited by this subdivision but which are in 36 existence prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which this subdivision is 37 derived shall be nonconforming uses. Such uses shall not be intensified, enlarged, or 38 expanded beyond the permitted or delineated boundaries of the use or activity as 39 stipulated in most current permit issued prior to the adoption of the ordinance from 40 which this subdivision is derived. 41 b. Nonconforming sanitary systems. All sanitary facilities inconsistent with the 42 performance standards of other applicable local ordinances and the minimum 43 standards of MPCA shall be brought into conformity or discontinued within five years 44 of the date of enactment of the ordinance from which this subdivision is derived or 45 other applicable ordinances. 46 (3) Substandard uses. All uses in existence prior to the effective date of enactment or amendment 47 of the ordinance from which this subdivision is derived which meet the allowable use criteria 48 within the newly established land use district provisions of this subdivision, but do not meet 49 the minimum lot area, setback, or other dimensional requirements of this subdivision are Page 156 of 160