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Planning Commission Meeting – Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance Revisions – Work Session #2 – April 9, 2025 <br /> <br />4 <br />Third, for each use it was determined which zoning district was the correct “fit” given the history of <br />zoning in Arden Hills as well as the updated purpose statements for the zoning district. In some cases, <br />uses did not seem appropriate for a given district. In other, a use seemed to align with the intent of the <br />district. <br /> <br />Fourth, the way in which a use is allowed was revisited. HKGi is advancing a first draft of use <br />permissions – prohibited, permitted, permitted with standards, and conditional. <br /> <br />Finally, a shorter table of accessory uses was prepared as a complement to the principal use table. <br /> <br />The full tables can be found in the attachments. New or modified language is shown in RED. A red X <br />means the permission for that use in that district is suggested to be removed. A BLUE notation with a <br />strikethrough indicates where a permission was changed. <br /> <br />A few specific comments or questions about the use tables are noted below: <br />1. The way in which the current CC district was described allowed for a wide range of uses – from <br />residential to funeral home to school to restaurant to fitness clubs. This may have been <br />appropriate when the district was envisioned as a mixed use community center, but with the <br />current focus on government services the types of uses allowed has been significantly reduced. <br />2. We recommend removing multifamily as a use from the GB district. If they City wants to <br />support a multifamily development south of Round Lake a better approach would be to rezone <br />the parcel(s) appropriately. <br />3. We recommend splitting Automotive Service Stations into Major and Minor in order to restrict <br />more impactful activities from less intense districts such as the MU district. Similarly, dividing <br />Retail Sales and Services between Large and Small would allow for more targeted placement of <br />commercial activities. <br />4. A few new uses are included for consideration: Liquor Store, Animal Veterinary Clinic, Off0site <br />Service Business, Construction Contractor Yard, Personal Storage Facility, and Outdoor <br />Commercial Recreation (as a principal use). <br />5. A number of specific principal uses stand out and raise questions: <br />a. Boarding House is listed as a current use. Should this be retained? If so, should it be <br />allowed in the R-4 and MU districts? <br />b. Hospitals are listed in the use table but not allowed in any districts. Which districts, if <br />any, should allow hospitals? GB and I-FLEX? <br />c. The current code makes provisions for Micro Breweries and Micro Distilleries, but does <br />not allow Breweries or Distilleries. Should they be allowed? <br />d. Nursery seems to be incorrectly allowed in all residential districts. Allow in I-FLEX? <br />e. Pawn Shops are strangely only allowed in the POS district. That seems inappropriate – <br />where should they be allowed? I-FLEX? <br />f. Public Use is currently allowed by conditional use in almost all districts, yet public <br />facilities are only located in the CC district as well as the MU district (future fire station).