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i - 2 February 1983 PLANNING REPORT CASE NUMBER: 1417-83 APPLICANT: Deluxe Check Printers, Inc. LOCATION: Northwest Corner of Pascal Avenue and { County Road B r ACTION REQUESTED: Amendment to Zoning Ordinance �a PLANNING.CONSIDERATIONS: 1. The Deluxe Check Printers, Inc. built a 39,000 square foot building in 5 1971;,functioning as their principal offices and processing facility <' until 1975:when they moved to substantially larger quarters in the City of Shoreview. In the meantime, the Deluxe Check people have continued to own. the building which has been vacant now for several years. From 1976 to approximately 1980 the building was leased to Medtronics for which the City of Roseville amended the Ordinance so as to allow the manufacture' of pacemakers in the structure. 2. Deluxe Check now wishes to utilize the building for its own purposes to be occupied by,a division of the Deluxe Check company which processes mail order sales of small stationery items "such as hand and checkbook calculators, desk clocks, calendars, pencil sharpeners, self -inking stamps, etc.". The problem here is that the land is zoned B-1, Limited Business which would accommodate. as "a permitted use the office functions involved, but not the f� storage, shipping, and minor assembly involved in one of the products (personalized hand stamps). Having discussed these operations with 1 reprresentatives from the Deluxe Check Printers it appears as though the processing of these items involves such small scale shipping and receiving that the operation could likely be conducted without anyone being readily aware hat it is going on. However, in view of the fact that it does .Y violate the Limited Business Zoning District regulations, we suggested that an appropriate course would be for the company to request an amendment to the B-1 District, particularly inasmuch as they propose to occupy the premises for this purpose for an extended period of time. . 3. Therefore, the company has requested an amendment to the zoning Ordinance to,.allow for this operation within the regulations of the Zoning Code. Attached is a lengthy statement from the company outlining in detail the nature and scope of its proposal. You will note on the first page of the letter that they suggest the amendment to include as a Special Use in the B-1 District "Mail order sales and order processing offices, including, in conjunction therewith, manufacture, assembly, storage,.,., and shipment of consumer mail order products." } �r 3