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Mendota Heights, 510 NW 2d 264(Mn App, 1994), a copy of which I enclose, our <br />appeals court ruled that where a city denied a re-zoning request from low-density <br />residential to high-density residential, based on a concern that high-density usage was <br />incompatible with adjacent land uses and air traffic, such a denial was legal, even though <br />leaving the present zoning in place was in conflict with the city's comprehensive plan. <br />The development plan which accompanies the present zoning request reveals a plat of <br />over two hundred lots, which by the developer's own admission, is likely to produce 10 <br />vehicular trips per day (or 2,000+ additional trips total) per dwelling. Neither the effect <br />of this traffic on the local street system, nor the hydrologic effect of creating perhaps <br />twenty acres of impervious surfaces due to roads, driveways and rooftops, has been <br />studied. If after study, the City'ofRamsey finds, as did the City of Mendota Heights, that <br />the proposed land use is simply too intense in relationship to adjoining land uses and <br />infrastructure, the above cited case would give clear authority to the City to deny the <br />zoning request, regardless of the comprehensive plan. Until this study has been done, it <br />would be extremely premature for the City to grant the request. <br /> <br />This information produces yet another reason for the City to table action on the proposed <br />zoning request. There is no compelling reason for the City to act on the matter al this <br />time, and in light of all the information presented by my recent correspondences, I <br />reiterate that prudence would dictate tabling action on this matter until the City's own <br />legal counsel can review the situation. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />