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FOA LHOKEF100 0 31016W CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: Saint Paul and. Subprban Bus Company LOCATION: Partridge Road. a a.. t ACTION REQUESTED.- Amendment to Zoning ordinance PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS.- 1. Two years ago (in the late summer of 1 978 ) Donald Regan requested a special t for the property occupied by the Mr. Print operation on the use permiI west side of Long Lake Road for the purpose of allowing the storage and maintenance of his school bus fleet on that property. A permit was approved on the condition that it tenninate in one year. The following year Mr. Regan had not found another location for the operation and the permit was extended, again with the condition that it terminate in one year while he found a replacement location. 2. Mr. Regan has made arrangements for the purchase of a parcel of land on Partridge Road with the intent of relocating the bus storage operation to that site. In the meantime, he has obta,fined a temporary inJunction enjoining the City from terminating his permit at the previous location. Mr. Regan now requests that the City amend the 1-2 Section of the ordinance (the Partridge Road property is zoned 1-2) so as to add the "'storage and maintenance of school and charter buses, including an administrative office, park - s torage facility , drivers 1i nes, dispatch offace , and customer sales and servicing for vehicles" as a special use for the 1-2 District. 3. The question at this time then is whether or not to add the use to the Ordinance rather than whether the use should be applied to the specific property in question. It is, of course, necessary to store school buses somewhere so as to make then conveniently available for use, which use, of courser is primary to carry school children to and from school - The nature of the operation., however, generally consists of a large area of asphalt occupied by a large fleet of buses. Thus, the use is not intensive, and is in fact not normally desired in any kind of "industrIal P,-,irk" environment. We suggest that with the limited amount of industrial L-Lknd now available for development in the City, that it would be in the City's best interest to have such parcels more in tens ly deve lobed , an well as to encourage the redevelopment of the many transportation related .facilities which we have in the City to more intensive uses over a period c time. Over a pe•-lod of time, we would particularly look for the development and redevelopment of parcels visible from the freeway to more intensive, more desirable,, and better tax producing development. We s119(1ec;t that the property that will ultimately