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ORDINANCE #25-05 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTERS 2, 10, 26, 105, 106, AND 109 OF CITY CODE The City of Ramsey ordains: Underlined text is inserted into City Code. Si ikethrough text is deleted from City Code. SECTION 1. AUTHORITY This ordinance is adopted pursuant to and under the authority of the City Charter of the City of Ramsey. SECTION 2. AMENDMENTS The following sections of City Code are amended as follows: Sec. 2-159. Duties, responsibilities and objectives. (a) Planning commission. The primary objective of the planning commission is to advise the city council on land use concerns and other duties conferred upon it by this chapter or the city council. In addition, the planning commission shall serve as the planning agency and shall have the powers and duties given such agencies by Minn. Stats. §§ 462.351 to 462.364. The planning commission shall also serve as and be given the powers of the board of appeals and adjustment. Appeals to the board of appeals and adjustment may be taken by any affected person upon compliance with the procedures established by in the zoning code ordinance. The primary objective of the board of adjustment and appeals shall be to hear and decide appeals where it is alleged that there is an error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative officer in the enforcement of the zoning code ordinance as well as to review and approve/deny variances from the provisions of the zoning code, subdivision code, and sign code as well as dimensional standards in Chapter 10 — Animals and Chapter 109 — Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks chapter 117 where strict enforcement would cause practical difficulties because of circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration. The planning commission shall be given the powers and duties given such agencies by Minn. Stats. § 462.357. The planning commission shall also be given the powers to consider appeals by owners of land within the official map area who have been denied a land use permit, other than those permits explicitly denied by the City Council zoning permit, approval for a building on land,or any other city action taken pursuant to the zoning code section 117 4 which may affect the landowner's land. The appeal procedures shall be pursuant to Minn. Stats. § 462.359 and section 117 1.