7.2A SR 06-18-2018 EGty1� ,.,�� Request for Action
River
To Item Number
Mayor and City Council 7.2A
Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by
Public Hearin� 1june 18, 2018 Chris Leeseber , Senior Planner
Item Description Reviewed by
ERX Motorpark Zack Carlton,Planning Manager
Ordinance Amendment Allowing Conditional Uses Reviewed by
to the XCR Zoning District Cal Portner, City Administrator
Action Requested
Adopt,by ordinance, the amendment to Section 30-1 definitions and Section 30-1027,XCR Extreme
Commercial Recreation.
Purpose of the Ordinance Amendment
The applicant is requesting the ordinance amendment to offer an increasing variety of uses on their
property on non-race days.
Background/Discussion
Case No. OA 18-05
The applicant is seeking an ordinance amendment adding new definitions and uses to be allowed as a
Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in the XCR district.
Planning Commission Meeting Summary
The Planning Commission had no issues with the proposed definitions and/or uses as long as measures
are implemented to mitigate noise created from races and live entertainment.
No one spoke for or against this specific amendment request but there were significant comments
regarding noise and safety during the CUP (CU 18-10) discussion.
The Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the zone change request.
Financial Impact
None
Statutory Review Period
Per State Statute 15.99 the required 60-day review period ends on June 29, 2018.
Attachments
■ Planning Commission Memo dated May 22, 2018
■ Ordinance
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Request for Action
To
Planning Commission
Item Number
4.2a
Agenda Section
Public Hearings
Meeting Date
May 22, 2018
Prepared by
Chris Leeseberg, Senior Planner
Item Description
ERX Motorpark – 21591 U.S. Highway 169
Ordinance Amendment Adding Allowed
Conditional Uses to the XCR Zoning District,
Case No. OA 18-05
Reviewed by
Zack Carlton, Planning Manager
Reviewed by
Action Requested
Recommend, by motion, approval of the Ordinance Amendment with the recommended amendments.
Background/Discussion
The applicant, ERX, has requested to add uses to the Extreme Commercial Recreational (XCR) Zoning
District which will allow them to offer an increasing variety of uses on their property on non-race days.
The stated purpose of the XCR district is intended to provide lodging, retail, and a variety of commercial
recreation uses that are more intense in nature than traditional recreational uses. Some uses may include,
but are not limited to, off road racing, hotels, and training facilities.
The applicant is proposing the following definitions and uses to be allowed as a Conditional Use Permit
(CUP):
Active Recreation and Physical Endurance Facility means non-motorized leisure activities, often requiring
equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Recreation requiring some building of
constructed obstacles and organized activities.
Staff recommends adding the underlined text per discussions with the applicant.
Live Entertainment Establishment means a facility where any amplified or non-amplified musical act
(including karaoke), theatrical act (including stand-up comedy), play, revue, scene, dance act, or song and
dance act, or any combination thereof, performed by one or more persons.
Staff recommends adding the underlined text to make the intent clear.
Festivals means the sale of ethnic specialty, regional, and gourmet foods, arts and crafts, live musical
entertainment, in an outdoor setting. A recreational, social, educational, or cultural activity, open to the
public or a designated part of the public. The provisions of rides, games, food, and amusements outside
of permanent structures. The use shall have a duration of no more than 10 days in a month. Events such
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as amusement rides, animal events, art shows, concerts, craft fairs, itinerant shows, and religious revival
meetings.
Research and Development Facility means research, development, and testing laboratories that do not involve
the mass manufacture, fabrication, processing, or sale of products.
The city already defines this. Research and development facility means a structure or complex of
structures designed or used primarily for research and development functions related to industry
and similar fields of endeavor, which does not involve the mass manufacture, fabrication,
processing, or sale of products. Staff recommends using the existing definition.
Conference and Event Center means a facility for service organizations, business and professional
conferences, and seminars limited to accommodations for conference attendees.
Swap Meet means occasional or periodic commercial activities held in an open area or an enclosed
structure where 1) groups of sellers rent space on a short-term basis to display, barter, or sell handcrafted
or other goods to the public; or 2) one or more sellers bring goods for auctioning to the public.
Staff recommends removing the strikethrough text.
Work Session
The City Council reviewed this at their work session on April 16, 2018, and had no issues with what was
being proposed. They directed staff to continue working with the applicant.
The Planning Commission reviewed this at their work session on April 24, 2018. The commission
discussed traffic concerns, camping events, and ERX’s vision by expanding the scope and concept of
their facility.
It was the consensus of the commission to support future expansion plans presented by ERX, seeing it as
a benefit to the community and drawing visitors into Elk River, and support the vision of ERX with the
introduction of new uses to the property to better utilize their space on non-race days.
Financial Impact
None
Attachments
Location Map
Narrative
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City of
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Ordinance 18 -
An Ordinance Amending Sections, 30-I, definitions and 30-1027, XCR extreme
commercial recreation of the City of Elk River, Minnesota, City Code
The City Council of the City of Elk River does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That § Section 30-1, definitions of the City of Elk River Code of Ordinances shall be
amended to include the following definitions:
Active Recreation and Physical Endurance Facility means non-motorized leisure activities, often requiring
equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Recreation requiring some building
of constructed obstacles and organized activities.
Conference and Event Center means a facility for service organizations,business and professional
conferences, and seminars limited to accommodations for conference attendees.
Festivals means the sale of ethnic specialty,regional, and gourmet foods, arts and crafts,live musical
entertainment,in an outdoor setting. A recreational, social, educational, or cultural activity, open to
the public or a designated part of the public. The provisions of rides, games,food, and amusements
outside of permanent structures. The use shall have a duration of no more than 10 days in a month.
Events such as amusement rides, animal events, art shows, concerts, craft fairs,itinerant shows, and
religious revival meetings.
Live Entertainment Establishment means a facility where any amplified or non-amplified musical act
(including karaoke), theatrical act (including stand-up comedy),play,revue, scene, dance act, or song
and dance act, or any combination thereof,performed by one or more persons.
S�ara�Meet means periodic commercial activities held in an open area or an enclosed structure where
groups of sellers rent space on a short-term basis to display,barter, or sell goods to the public; or
one or more sellers bring goods for auctioning to the public.
SECTION 2. That § Section 30-1027,XCR extreme commercial recreation of the City of Elk
River Code of Ordinances shall be amended to read as follows:
a) Purpose. The extreme commercial recreation district is intended to provide lodging, retail,
and a variety of commercial recreation uses that are more intense in nature than traditional
recreational uses. Some uses may include,but are not limited to, off road racing,hotels, and
training facilities.
b) Permitted uses.
1) Agriculture uses.
2) Business offices.
3) Horticulture uses.
4) Public parks.
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5) Restaurants, class I requires city services).
6) Restaurants, class II requires city services
7) Retail sales.
c) Accessory uses.
1) Overflow event parking.
2) Signs as permitted in section 30-851 et sec .
3) Structures, accessory.
d) Interim uses. Interim uses shall be permitted for no more than five, or when the
proper is platted,whichever occurs first. The ci may require an escrow to ensure the
conditions of the interim use are adhered to.
1) Concrete/asphalt products and processing.
2) Gravel mining.
3) Home occupations, conditional.
4) Kennels, commercial.
5) Veterinary clinics.
6) Wind turbines.
e) Conditional uses.
1) Active use storage.
2) Active recreation and physical endurance facilities.
3) Campground for a period of no more than seven consecutive da s
4) Conference and event centers.
5) Festivals.
6) Hotels requires city services
7) Limited sta,r�ging.
8) Live Entertainment Establishments.
9) Off road racing facilities.
10) Outdoor storage, provided the storage area:
a. Is accessory to a principal permitted,interim, or conditional use; and
b. Complies with the accessory structure setback requirement applicable to the
proper ; and
c. Is no larger than 30 percent of the building area; and
d. Includes screening so as to provide a visual barrier. Any such barrier shall
reduce visibility in a manner that restricts vision of the object being screened,
but is not required to totally block the vision of any such object.
1. Screening shall consist of two or more of the following_
i. A compact evergreen or deciduous hedge or evergreen, overstor and
ornamental trees of sufficient width and density; or
a. Hedge material must be at least three feet in height.
b. Deciduous trees must be at least two inches in diameter as
measured six inches above the ground.
c. Coniferous trees must be at least six feet in height.
ii. An earth berm of sufficient height to provide an effective screen
throughout the year; or
a. Earth berms shall not have a slope of more than three feet
horizontal to one foot vertical or be located within any street
right-of-way unless otherwise approved by the city engineer.
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iii. A screening fence constructed of one or more of the following
materials:
a. Factory finished metal or vinyl panels.
b. Wood.
11) Swap meets.
12) Water sports facility.
lodging,a) Purpose. The ex"eme commercia4 recreation distr4ct is intended to provide retail,
include,and a var4ety of commercial recreation uses that are more fnl,ense in natur than "aditio
recreationa4 uses. Some uses may and
but are not limited to, off road racing, hotels,
training facilities.
b) Permitted uses.
1) Retail shops and stores,
2) Business and professiona4 offices.
4) Class 11 restattrants (requires cf'-Ly- sefvices).
5) Public parks, > and open space.
6) Agfietkure hortietkure uses.
7) Faci4ities for flood and erosion control.
c) Accessoty uses.
1) Accessoty structures.
2) Sig-fis as Permitted in section 30 851 et seq.
3) Public shelters and essential sefvices.
4) Overflow event parkifig,
d) inter4m uses. inter4m uses shaR be permitted for no more than five years, of whefl
pfopef-Ly-is platted,whichever occurs first. The city may fequife an esefow to ensure th-e
conditions of the inter4m ttse are adhered to.
1) Roadside sa4es stands.
2) kMnd generators.
area:�) —sph.-alt and concrete plant.
5) Veter4naty clinics commercial kennels.
6) Conditiona4 home
e) Conditiona4 uses,
13) Off road racing faci4ities.
14) Water sports facility.
15) Limited stay lodging.
16) Active ttse storage.
17) Campground—For a per4od of no more than seven consecutive days.
18) Hotels �equires city sefvices).
19) Outdoor storage, provided the storage
or conditiona4 ttse; an
>interim,
b. Complies with the accessoty structure setback requfrement applicable to
property; and
c. is no laTer than 30 percent of the buMng area; an
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reduce visibi4ity in a manner that restnic"s "sion off the object being screened-,
but is not required to tota4y block the vision of any such. ob-je�L.
1. Screening shaR consist of two or move of the fol4owing:
omamenta4 trees of sufficient width and density; or
a. Hedge matefial must be at least three feet in height.
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year;Deciduous trees must be at least two inches in diameter asmeasured six inches above the g-round,
c. Coniferous trees must be at least six feet in heigi-&
ii. An earth berm of sUfficient height to provide an effeebi e -----
throughout the
a. Earth berms shaR not ha-,v-e a slope of move than three fee
hor4zontal to one foot vertical or be located within any s"ee
fight of way unless othtfwti3t aFF'"Ved by the city engineer.
iii. A screening fence constructed of one or move of the f614 --b
Factoty finished metal or vinyl panels.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect upon adoption and be published as provided by
law.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Elk River this 18th day of June, 2018.
John J. Dietz,Mayor
ATTEST:
Tina Allard, City Clerk
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