2B, 2009 Community Development Year-End Review

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A review of the City's shoreland regulations was started in early 2009 and continued into 2010. There was also an application by a petitioner to amend the City's Zoning Code to allow additional antennas on existing non-conforming communications towers and to allow new antennas at a height in excess of 75 feet. This application is still pending. Site Plan Reviews There were a total of three site plan reviews during 2009, two were approved and one was pending at the end of the year. One of the site plan reviews was for Phase II of Northwestern College's Master Plan to construct a student life center and campus green. Permits have been issued and that project is underway. The second site plan review was to allow the businesses at Arden Plaza to place temporary signage along the driveway entrance from County Road E. The businesses in Arden Plaza have since set up a schedule for the use of that space. The third site plan review was still pending at the end of 2009 and is for Mounds View High School to install a foul ball netting system as part of their ball field project. Variances Of the five variances brought before the City in 2009, four were approved, and one was still pending at the end of the year. Three of the approved variances were residential in _ nature. One dealt with an expansion of a non-conforming home that had burned down, one was for the construction of a detached garage in the front yard of a shoreland lot, and the third was for setback encroachments for the construction of an addition. The fourth variance request that was approved was for a height variance at Northwestern College for the new student commons building. A fifth variance request for encroachments to side and rear setbacks on a lake shore lot for the construction of a new home were still pending. Rezoning and Comprehensive Plan Amendment One rezoning request for the Arden Village workforce housing proposal was received by the City in 2009 and continued into 2010. The applicant is requesting that the lot be re- platted into two parcels; one of the parcels would remain within the I-1 industrial district, while the other would be rezoned to R-4 to allow for multiple family housing. This application also requires a comprehensive plan amendment to change the future land use designation of the lot from Utility to Multiple Family. City of Arden Hills City Council Meeting for March 8, 2010 - IlMetro-inet.uslardenhillslPlanninglDepartment Records I Quarterly&Year End Reports12009102-08-10-2009 Year in Review.doc Page 4of8