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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES <br />NOVEMBER 26, 2001 <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />difficult to approve an apartment four months down the road on this site. She added the <br />main issue is whether they want to change the Comprehensive Plan or not. <br /> <br />Mayor Probst stated he begged to differ with Councilmember Aplikowski's evaluation. <br />He noted a vote to not amend the Comprehensive Plan was not a vote against housing at <br />this location forever. He added that if there is a project that is so meritorious that it caused <br />the Council to rethink neighborhood business zoning, that would be different. He stated <br />what is before them now does not meet that standard. He noted he was not opposed to <br />housing. He added the other proposals did not fit the site. He stated it was going to <br />require some sensitivity to make sure housing would fit into this site. <br /> <br />Councilmember Larson asked if the Council first needed a motion to deny the request to <br />amend the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Filla responded that it was important to have the <br />language of the resolution included in the minutes. He stated the motion could be: <br /> <br />Motion to adopt a resolution to deny a request for a change to the comprehensive plan <br />designation for this site from neighborhood business to high density residential, which <br />incorporates the following: <br /> <br />Whereas, Beacon Construction has represented that it is the owner or has the right <br />to purchase the following described property generally located in the southeast <br />quadrant of County Road E2 and Cleveland Avenue (Insert legal description "the <br />Beacon Property"), <br /> <br />Whereas, the Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map currently <br />designates the Beacon Property as neighborhood business <br /> <br />Whereas, the Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan and the designation on the Future <br />Land Use Map was adopted in 1998, <br /> <br />Whereas, Beacon Construction has requested that the City amend its <br />Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map for the Beacon Property to high density <br />residential, <br /> <br />Whereas, the City Council has determined that no substantial changes have <br />occurred within this section of the City of Arden Hills since the Arden Hills <br />Comprehensive Plan was amended in 1998 and the Council reaffirms its <br />legislative determinations from 1998 <br /> <br />Whereas, the City Council has determined that Beacon Construction has a <br />reasonable use of its property if developed in compliance with the City's current <br />development regulations. <br /> <br />Now, Therefore be it resolved, that the application of Beacon Construction to <br />amend the Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan by changing the future land use <br />