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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—November 15, 2010 7 6.A. Approve Resolution 2010-059:Abatement of 1960 County Road E2 (continued) City Planner Beekman stated there was a notice on the property from a contractor that it had been properly winterized. - The motion was called to a vote. The motion carried unanimously(5-0). 7. NEW BUSINESS A. Arden Hall Planned Unit Development and Zoning Code Amendment City Planner Beekman stated at the September 8, 2010, meeting the Planning Commission reviewed an application from TAT Properties and Northwestern College for a Zoning Code amendment and Master and Final PUD to convert the existing student housing facility at 1201 County Road E from an interim use to a permanent use. The application also included a request = for a preliminary and final plat to subdivide the seven acre property into two parcels. The Planning Commission voted to table the request for a Zoning Code amendment and Master and Final PUD, and recommended denial of the applicant's request for the preliminary and final plat. The applicant has since withdrawn his request for the preliminary and final plat, but is moving forward with a request for the Zoning Code amendment and PUD to allow the existing use to continue. In March 2008 the City approved a request from TAT Properties and Northwestern College granting an Interim Use Permit(lUP) at the former Holiday Inn property that would allow the College to operate a student housing facility in the B-2 District. The IUP is set to expire May 30, 2011. Student Housing is currently defined as "institutional housing" in the City's Zoning Code. As part of the approval the City adopted an IUP process, and amended the City's land use chart to allow institutional housing as an interim use in the B-2 District, under certain circumstances. Since the September 8, Planning Commission meeting, the applicant have reviewed their request in terms of making the existing student housing use permanent versus extending the existing interim use permit. The applicants have indicated that the costs of improvements that are required in the building are significant, and that these improvements warrant a long term investment in the property. Furthermore, a zoning classification that allows the use permanently is necessary in order to obtain financing to make the required improvements. Councilmember Holden asked what was included in the definition for institutional housing. She also asked if the zoning code were changed if other PUDs for institutional housing could be brought forward for the B-2 District. City Planner Beekman stated assisted or senior housing, hospitals and student housing were included in the definition for institutional housing. She also explained that the Zoning Code for this District is very specific in that only student housing would be permitted and that it would only be permitted in a preexisting hotel/motel within the district. The only way another institutional housing development could be added to the B-2 District would be with another Zoning Code amendment and PUD. Councilmember Holmes clarified that Zoning Code, not the PUD, would reference the shuttle bus that Northwestern College currently operates.