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I ~- - - -- --- - =- -- - --= -=-- ""'" ~ ,... """ :;:;::: 3::::: ,... ~ :;;::; :;::;: -= ~ ;:>:;:~~ """ =~~ """'~ 0;::; = 3':>~~ ;;::;:: ;;;:;:: ~~_..;;;:t~'---'II~! SANDERS LANDSCAPE 365 East Kellogg Boulevard U i WACKER ; ARCHITECTS Sa,m Paul. M,nnesota 55101 III In WEHRMAN AND 612.221.0401 \ /Ill' 1UI BERGlY PLANNERS Fax: 612.297.66"7 lUll 1U~ '. _ ',M I 1U "'-'CC1'tC' : IU! I J 4,199- Ht::. 'l-' \, 1-." I I ~~.) ~ nil r _ 1M 1~ 'I\N 11 6 1qq. \ ! '~ .. , J... , wll 11U! Mr. Bnan Fntsmger'l1Y ll~ UKlIb, illl: nIl City of Arden Hills . I I 1450 West Highway 96 11/1' I 11/1 Arden Hills. Minnesota 55112-5794 bl ~~ Subject: Zoning Districts for the Two Colleges in Arden Hills lUll I b ~&= b ~ I I n1 On December 12, 1994 staff discussed the concern raised recently by members of the Planning Commission r 1~ regnrding the appropriateness of the B-1 Zoning for the Bethel Campus, especially in reference to the R-l Zoning ~~ IIU! for Northwestern College. Two or three times within the past several years. this issue has been raised and ill ~M' discussed with the Planning Commission and Council. Each time, it was concluded that the zoning for both f1l I II colleges is appropriate in tenns of potential future uses - if the colleges were to leave the sites, 11M ~ b The Bethel Campus development would be adaptable to a high quality Business Campus (like CPD or Business b Park (like Opus in Minnetonka) or a health care facility. It would be a reasonable extension of the Lexington/Fox ~ Business Area, it abuts a major arterial highway, and it would provide a reasonably sound land use transition 1M between the mixed business-industrial uses to the east and the single-family areas to the west and south. I Ini Valentine Lake, with no development on the western or northern shores, provides a buffer for either the college ~/l '~I or potential furure B-1 uses and the nearby residential uses. 1M I 11U! The Northwestern Campus does not have the same relationship to adjoining uses. Rezoning it to a B-1 district tj I ~/ul would introduce the possibility of a new use to that area of the City. Lake Johanna's shoreline, in contrast to (UI I ' Valentme Lake, is totallv developed with single-familv homes except for Northwestern College. I,'ffl In~ .' m I Illi This zoning issue was discussed al some length in 1991 when the "school" land use categories were redefined 'I~ I'UI and reclassified and was discussed agam when the Zoning Ordinance was anlend"d in 1993. The conclusion was filii to retain the zoning as it is (see attached letter from Jerry Filla). however, the Land Use Chart in the Zoning III I II, Ordinance, Section V.E., page V -6, does not reflect this detennination as it does not show "Higher Education" b l~1111 as a Special Use in the B-1 District. This oversight should be corrected. The City Attorney should determine I 1~ if an ordinance amendment is required or if the page can simply be reprinted and distributed. 14 ~ m I lfUI Please contact me if you want to discuss this further, 1M ~bl d~ ~ I ~ b ~ b ~ b 1,M I ~.... ~ .. . . . ~. . .. . .. . . . . . ~. _ . .. 'M," . . .~