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......-.-'\..~ -, " " ,. RESOLtJrION NO. 1717 STATE OF MINNEsarA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGH'I'OO RESOWl'ION MAKING FINDINGS OF FAC!', DENYING APPLICATION FOR PRELIMINARY APPRfNAL OF PRO #22 AND STATING REASONS FOR SUCH DENIAL WHEREAS an application for preliminary approval of PRO #22 has been made to the City and said application has been processed, reviewed by the Planning Coomission and considered at a public hearing NOW '1'HEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the New Brighton City CmIDcil m:lkes the follOWing Findings of Fact in respect to PRO #22: FINDINGS OF FACt' 1. An application for preliminary approval for PRO #22 was filed with the City on March 26, 1976; 2. The application net the technical requirerrents for consideration by the City, Council; " 3. The Pl.aoning Conmission, considered the application at its regular public rreetings held on April 20, 1976, and recomrended denial of the application; 4. The City Council, pursuant to published and ma.iled notices, held a, public hearing on May 11, 1976, to consider the application. All persons present, including the applicant, were given an opportunity to be heard. 5. The written ccmrents and analysis of the City Planner, the Planning Conmission minutes and recorrmendations and all persons I staterrents ma.de at the publ.ic hearing were considered including the staterrents of the applicant. BE IT FURI'HER RESOLVED, That the application for preliminary approval of PRO #22 be and is hereby denied for the following reasons: l. The plan includes a number of lots sma.ller in front footage and total. lot size than the size required by the zoning code and smaller than the typical. residential lots in the neighbor- hOOd. The petitioner failed to show any offsetting or balancing design consideration in the plan to justify the small lots. The only purpose appeared to be increasing the density of population to rrore than would be available under conventional platting. 2. The small lot size is inappropriate to the area and would change the character of the neighborhood. The ordinance practi.ces and pOlicies of the City discourage creation and use of substandard lots. 3. The open space provided in the plan is not intergrated into the deve10prrent and is not readily accessible to residents of west and East parcels. The petitioner uses the PRO to rraximize the number of units in a particular area and designating as open space that property which has soil problems and, therefore, not readily usable for park or recreational purposes.