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City of Arden Hills Planning Commission Meeting for July 8, 2020 P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2020\20-011 Northern Heights Lutheran Church - CUP\Memos Reports Page 1 of 7 MEMORANDUM DATE: July 8th, 2020 PC Agenda Item 3.A TO: Planning Commission Chair and Commissioners FROM: Joe Hartmann, Associate Planner SUBJECT: Planning Case #20-011 –Public Hearing Required Applicant: John Oldfield, North Heights Lutheran Church Property Location: 1700 Highway 96 W Request: Conditional Use Permit and Planned Unit Development Amendment Requested Action John Oldfield (“The Applicant”) on behalf of North Heights Lutheran Church has submitted an application for a Conditional Use Permit and Planned Unit Development Amendment for a pre- school and nursey that would be located within the existing facilities at 1700 Highway 96 W (“Subject Property”). The Subject property is located in the R-1 Single Family Residential District and is guided as Public and Institutional in the Land Use Plan. Pre-school/nursery uses are defined as school, general education in the zoning code and are permitted via a Conditional Use Permit in the R-1, Single Family Residential District. However, the Subject Property also operates under a Planned Unit Development that requires an amendment if there is a change in use on site. Background 1. Overview of Request The use of the Subject Property as a place of worship has been in continuous operation since 1947. The City Council approved Planned Unit Development Permit (PUD) Planning Case 84-21 in 1984 that gave the Applicants permission to operate a church at the Subject Property. The PUD included conditions of approval such as a requirement that the use of the church and supporting facilities with the R- l Zoning District shall be limited to those uses and activities normally associated with a church operation. The PUD was amended three (3) times in 1995, 2000, and 2002, respectively. Most recently in 2002, a Special/Conditional Use Permit was approved for the North Heights Family Life Center to operate a program for high school aged students with eighty-six (86) matriculated students on site, but the program was never implemented and the permit has since been expired. The proposed use of the Subject Property at that time was found to be consistent with its original approvals and there were no exterior modifications proposed with that request. The one (1) condition of approval associated with this previous request was that the main parking lot access drive for the secondary school use should be from Highway 96 and North Heights was to direct as much traffic to the Highway 96 access drive as possible.