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...- . . . -' ."" PROPOSED RESOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY TO: The City Council of the City of Ramsey We recognize that it is your intent and purpose to work with the business community of the City of Ramsey as a partnership for the orderly growth and development of the economy within the city. It has been our goal and objective to implement this purpose and, consistent with that, we have met with your staff for the purpose of enhancing the orderly growth and development and encouraging the existing business enterprises in carrying out their business activities. It appears to us that a potentially major conflict is emerging in the interpretation of your ordinances. As we understand it, the broad general language that you adopted to give staff flexibility in when they would request or demand an application for conditional use permit was intended to give staff the opportunity to enhance the "partnership" relationship between the City and the business community. It now appears to us as your advisers that staff are using this broad authority to insist on conditional use permit applications in circumstances which seem very inappropriate to those of us on the Commission. The staff's interpretation of the broad language, "public health, safety, convenience and welfare or to avoid traffic congestion or hazard or other dangers or to promote conformity of a proposed use with the character of adjoining property uses, and the district as a whole, or to protect such character" is much more constrictive, limited and confining than we on your Commission believe it should'be. We also believe that it is a delegation of authority which is so vague that it is unenforceable. NOW, THEREFORE, in light of this conflict, we respectfully urge and request the City Council to direct staff to refrain from any further demands for conditional use permit applications under this broad general language. We further request the Council to direct staff to work with the Economic Development Commission in redrafting ordinances in order to carry out the directive that you have given your Commission and that staff be further directed to submit back to the Council for its consideration such revision of the ordinances as in the judgment of the Commission would be appropriate. Once the ordinances have been redrafted, then staff should be directed to carry out the directives of the ordinances as redrafted. . Dated this ~~ day of November, 1989.