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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Department Approval: DPW Item Description: DATE: 01/26/04 ITEM NO: 3.2 Agenda Section: CONSENT Amendment to Zoning Map to Designate Parks and Open Space as "POS" (PF3539) 1tW~ 1.0 BACKGROUND: In July and August of2003, the City held public hearings/readings and created a new zoning district called "Public Park and Open Space" or "pas". The original request came with the Vista 2000 report and has been carried forward within the amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the Park Systems Plan. The Park and Recreation Commission has endorsed this concept. Within Roseville there are nearly 1,200 acres of some type of park and recreation or open space use. The City has 657 acres of parks as well as the Cedarholm Golf Course at 26 acres. The County has the majority ofthe remaining publicly-owned uses such as beaches (18 acres) and open spaces (133 acres). The other large open space is the privately-owned Midland Hills Golf Course at 160 acres which is excluded from this amendment. The "POS" district was established as a means of clarifying and protecting lands actually located within city and county park and open spaces. Uses allowed within this "pas" district are public park uses and buildings and those uses adopted within the master plan for the site within the Parks System Plan. The next step in the process was to identify all park and open space parcels which the city or county currently owns. A GIS map has been created that illustrates the dispersed nature of the city and county owned parcels that must be changed from "R-l", "R-3A", "B-1", "PUD" and "I-I" and "1-2" to "pas". In an attachment, each park is listed along with the parcel identification number and the existing zoning on that parcel. Some issues that have been resolved include: 1. School Districts - The school districts do not wish to have their parcels currently used for park and recreation purposes changed to "pas". To do so would restrict the district's future uses of the site, should a school no longer be needed on the site. 2. County Parks - The County (through County Parks Director Greg Mack) approves of and wishes to have their parcels, which are currently used for park and recreation purposes, changed to "pas". 3. PIN Consolidation - Many of the parks and some of the open space and ponding areas are contained within multiple parcels. The city, working with the County Surveyor, will consolidate the parcels to create one tax and GIS parcel for each park. 4. Park Address - One official address will be created for each park edge that fronts on a public street. In other words - a park could still have a number of addresses on multiple streets. 1