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_________________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 10 of 29 <br />HIGHER EDUCATION ZONING IN OTHER COMMUNITIES <br /> <br />The cities included in this evaluation are as follows: <br /> <br />• Minneapolis <br />• St. Paul <br />• Bloomington <br />• Roseville <br />• Shoreview <br />• New Brighton <br />• Mounds View <br />• White Bear Lake <br />• Brooklyn Park <br />• Inver Grove <br />Heights <br />• Rosemount <br />• Eden Prairie <br />• Anoka <br />• Coon Rapids <br />• St. Cloud <br />• Mankato <br />• St. Peter <br />• New Ulm <br />• Northfield <br />• Winona <br /> <br />Within each City, each zoning district was reviewed to determine where higher education uses <br />are a permitted or conditional use. From there, the specific districts were generalized <br />(commercial, industrial, residential, etc.) to allow for comparison across cities. The spreadsheet <br />of this comparison is provided in Appendix D. This evaluation revealed that there is no apparent <br />pattern regarding how cities in Minnesota allow for higher education uses. However, several <br />cities separate higher education uses out into two categories: college or university, campus; and <br />college or university, office-based. This is beneficial to these cities because the intensity of use <br />between these two categories can be vastly different. <br /> <br />Colleges with campuses often include students living on campuses in residence halls, athletic <br />facilities for sport, theatres for performing arts and cafeterias or other types of food service in <br />addition to their classrooms, laboratories, libraries and other educational spaces. College <br />campuses are often lively places 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In comparison, traditional <br />colleges are opening office-based colleges that have been dominated by the Globe or Rasmussen <br />Business Colleges in the past. The University of St. Thomas campus in Downtown Minneapolis <br />and the Hamline University facility in the West End of St. Louis Park are two examples of <br />traditional colleges that have office-based campuses away from their main campuses. These <br />office-based campuses are often occupied by graduate students or adults participating in <br />continuing education courses and the activity at them is often limited to weeknights or Saturdays. <br /> <br />In concerning this two-type higher education regulation, the office-based definition should <br />include language that the office building be used, constructed and operated similar to other office <br />buildings. This is meant to allow classrooms with lab courses such as biology or medical that <br />may draw blood but which would not require special air handling HVAC equipment, the storage <br />of large volumes of chemicals or generating hazardous wastes that can be common with hard <br />science labs for chemistry or physics courses. <br /> <br />The final step in evaluating higher education in other communities was to look at specific <br />institutions of higher education and evaluate whether or not they are located in a district where <br />higher education is a permitted or conditional use. The spreadsheet of this evaluation is provided <br />in Appendix E. Of the 38 institutions evaluated, seven of them were located in a zoning district <br />that does not allow for higher education uses. Of these seven, five are public colleges and <br />universities of either the MNSCU or University of Minnesota system. MNSCU system schools <br />Dr <br />a <br />f <br />t <br /> <br />07 <br />/ <br />2 <br />6 <br />/ <br />2 <br />0 <br />1 <br />7
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