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RESOLUTION AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN - FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE BOUNDARY AVENUE LAND USE STUDY AREA, FROM PARK PLACE TO KINGSBURY CREEK, AND EAST ALONG BOUNDARY AVENUE.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the city council makes the following findings:
(a) The city council adopted the Duluth Comprehensive Land Use Plan on June 26, 2006, via Resolution 06-0491, which outlined the desired arrangement of land uses for the next 20 years; and
(b) The city planning division, which is implementing the Comprehensive Land Use Plan by implementing zoning regulations, has studied how, in some situations, amending the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to enable the eventual rezoning of an area will encourage new and appropriate development, encourage the reuse of previously developed lands and the adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure; and
(c) Based on a review of this area completed by the city planning division, staff recommended to the city planning commission that the Future Land Use map be amended for the study, as described below and shown in the map (Attachment 1):
1. In the area south Park Place, north of the Minnesota Power Easement and parallel to Boundary Avenue, from Low Density Neighborhood to Neighborhood Mixed Use, as shown in Area A.
2. Areas north of US Highway 2, south of Elder Drive, and east of the storage facility in the western portion of the study area, from Neighborhood Commercial to Traditional Neighborhood, as shown in Area B.
(d) The city planning commission has reviewed this future land use amendment, conducted a public hearing on March 14, 2017, at their regular planning commission meeting, and recommends city council adoption of the proposed future land use map amendment; and
(e) The city council action shall be by resolution, with the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of those members constituting a quorum required to take action.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, that the adopted Comprehensive Land Use Plan - Futur...
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