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ORDINANCE #25-10 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTERS 2 AND 106 PERTAINING TO VARIANCES The City Council of Ramsey ordains: 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 TO CHAPTER 2 AND 106. The following sections of Chapter 2 and 106 are hereby amended as follows: Underlined text is inserted into City Code. Striketbrough text is deleted from City Code. Sec. 2-55. — Board of Appeals and Adjustment. The City Council shall also serve as and be given the variance approval powers of the board of appeals and adjustment as described in Minnesota Statutes 462.357. Appeals to the board of appeals and adjustment may be taken by any affected person upon compliance with the procedures established in the zoning code. 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 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, where strict enforcement would cause practical difficulties because of circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration. The City Council shall be given the powers and duties given such agencies by Minn. Stats. § 462.357. The City Council 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, approval for a building on land, or any other city action taken pursuant to the zoning code which may affect the landowner's land. The appeal procedures shall be pursuant to Minn. Stats. § 462.359. Sec. 2-159. Duties, responsibilities and objectives. (a) Planning commission. The primary objective of the planning commission is to hold public hearings on land use applications from the Zoning Code, Sign Code, and Subdivision Code and to advise the city council on those land use applications and other 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. §§ 462.351-462.364. 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 in the zoning code. 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 as well as to review and approve/deny variances from