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<br />.!. <br /> <br />8. The school originally proposed to use Meadowwood Park for structured and unstructured <br />outdoor recreation activities, however, due to conflicts with the City's Special Use Permit <br />Standards, the applicant now proposes not to use Meadowwood Park. <br />9. The applicant has not proposed an acceptable alternative means of providing for necessary <br />recreational facilities on-site. <br />10. The location of a school in the midst of a site enviromnent designed for commercial <br />activity would not be suitable for the health, safety, and welfare of the students attending <br />the school. <br />11. The Rice Creek Shopping Center is currently occupied by commercial merchants including <br />a liquor establishment and contains 70,000 square feet of building area. <br />12. The applicant has indicated the existing liquor establishment would be removed from the <br />Rice Creek Shopping Center prior to the church and school locating in the center. <br />13. The City's Comprehensive Plan addresses the Rice Creek Shopping Center area as a <br />community service center serving the neighborhood and large portion of the community. <br />14. The Comprehensive Plan also states that any proposals for the Rice Creek Shopping Center <br />be carefully reviewed to insure any proposed use is complimentary to existing residential <br />and commercial uses. <br />15. The proposed church and school would not compliment existing residential or commercial <br />uses and would impede the normal and orderly improvement of surrounding property. <br />Converting 40,000 square feet of existing commercial building area to a non-commercial <br />use would serve to interrupt the continuity of commercial uses in the area and cause the <br />adjacent and peripheral commercial uses to experience a decline in commercial activity, <br />value. and physical growth. In the long term, this could lead to a decline in residential <br />property values and reinvestment. The Rice Creek Shopping Center area, one of three <br />community business districts serving New Brighton, a nearly fully developed City, should <br />be protected from those uses which would impair its commercial viability and its utility as <br />a shopping area for the immediate neighborhood and a large portion of the community. <br />16. An evaluation of the Rice Creek Shopping Center commercial area prepared by McComb <br />Group, Ltd. in March of 1993 advises against locating the church and school in the <br />shopping center. <br />17. The use described is not in harmony with the City's Comprehensive Plan and is not <br />consistent with the special use permit standards. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the application SP-l72A is hereby denied. <br /> <br />Adopted this 27th day of April, 1993. <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />ATJ'EST: <br /> <br />~mc~ <br /> <br />D vld M. Childs. City Manager <br /> <br />~ <br />~gare~,~~ . <br />Fmahce Director/City Clerk <br /> <br />(SEAL) <br /> <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />