Resolution - #95-01-017 - 01/10/1995

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Councilmember Beyer introduced the following resolution and moved for its adoption: RESOLUTION #95-01-017 RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINDINGS OF FACT g0371 TO REZONE CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM R-I RURAL RESIDENTIAL AND B-2 BUSINESS TO R-3 URBAN RESIDENTIAL WHEREAS, the City received an application for site plan approval to expand Ramsey Elementary School and it has been determined that a rezoning of the subject property to R-3 Urban Residential is necessary to accommodate the expansion. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKA COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, as follows: That Anoka Hennepin Independent School District No. 11 is proposing to expand Ramsey Elementary School and has acquired two parcels south of the existing school site to accommodate the expansion. That the existing school site is zoned R- 1 Rural Residential and the acquired parcels to the south are zoned B-2 Business, for which schools are not a permitted use. To expand the lawful non-conforming structure would require a conditional use permit or a rezoning of the property to R-3 Urban Residential, for which schools are a permitted use. That Anoka Hennepin Independent School District No. 11, hereinafter referred to as "Applicant", has requested the rezoning of certain property from R-1 Rural Residential and B-2 Business to R-3 Urban Residential. That the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing pursuant to Section 9.03.03 of the City Code on January 3, 1995 and that said public hearing was properly advertised and that the minutes of said public hearing are hereby incorporated by reference. 5. That the property proposed to be rezoned is legally described as follows: All that part of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 23, Township 32, Range 25, Anoka County Minnesota, lying west of the public road known as Nowthen Boulevard N.W., excepting therefrom a triangle containing 1/2 square rod described as follows to-wit: Commencing at the Southwest comer of said South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 23; thence North along the West line thereof a distance of 16-1/2 feet; thence in a Southeasterly direction to a point on the South line of said South Half of the Southeast Quarter which is distant 16-1/2 feet East of the Southwest corner thereof; thence West on said South line a distance of 16-1/2 feet to the point of beginning. Subject to an easement for road purposes over a tract of land that lies between a parallel line Southwesterly of and 60 feet distant of the following described line: Commencing at the Northeast comer Section 26, Township 32, Range 25; thence West on the North line of said Section 26, a distance of 431.45 feet to the point of beginning; thence Northwesterly at an angle of 119 degrees, 15 minutes (when measured from East to North) 1,550.00 feet and there terminating. EXCEPT: All that part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 23, Township 32, Range 25, Anoka County, Minnesota, described as follows: Commencing at a point on the South line of said Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter a distance of 431.45 feet West of the Southeast comer of said Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Resolution #95-01-017 Page I of 3