File #: 17-068-O    Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/21/2017 In control: Planning and Economic Development
On agenda: 12/4/2017 Final action: 12/11/2017
Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF DULUTH TO RECLASSIFY PROPERTY AT THE END OF SPRING STREET, FROM I-G TO MU-W.
Attachments: 1. Attachment 1, 2. Attachment 2, 3. Attachment 3
Title
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF DULUTH TO RECLASSIFY PROPERTY AT THE END OF SPRING STREET, FROM I-G TO MU-W.

Body
CITY PROPOSAL:

The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That the subject properties at the end of Spring Street, as shown in Attachment 1, and as more particularly described as follows:

010-2746-00310
010-2746-00311
010-2746-00312
010-2746-00313

be rezoned from Industrial-General (I-G) to Mixed Use-Waterfront (MU-W).
Section 2. That the official zoning map of the City of Duluth as referenced in Chapter 50 of the Duluth City Code, 1959, is amended to read as shown in Attachment 1.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days from and after its passage and publication.

Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This ordinance provides a zoning change from Industrial-General (I-G) to Mixed-Use Waterfront (MU-W) for properties at the end of Spring Street in the Riverside neighborhood. This rezoning will update the city's zoning map to more clearly reflect the actual usage of the subject areas (marina over a portion of the subject area) and be in conformance with the future land use designation of commercial waterfront.
This rezoning action is being done by the city of Duluth to address a discrepancy between the zoning map and the future land use map, and it is not in anticipation of any specific potential development, proposal, or project. The city is amending the zoning map throughout the city, and this is one of the many zoning projects, both large and small, being proposed to the planning commission over the next several months prior to the public hearing and adoption process for the Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Plan.
Based on the future land use designation of the subject property, purpose statements of the I-G and MU-W zone districts, current land use of the subject property, and the character of the surrounding properties in the neighborhood, rezoning to MU-W is app...

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