04-29-1974 PC MIN
CITY PLANNING, ELK RIVER MINN.
April 29th, 1974.
Hearing on the preliminary. plat of Village Estate~s 2nd .addition
in Sec. 30, Tpw. 33, Rng. 26 (Gary SantwifeI. Plat consists of one block
with l8 lots allover 1 acre. No access to County road 35 except on
Xerxes Street.
The question of dedication of land or payment of cash for park
purposes was considered and is was M.S.C. that the plat be approved as
presented with the request to the County Planning COmmission that either
10 per cent of the land or 10 per cent of the cash value of ~he lots sold
be turned over to the Park Board for used by it to purchase land for the
park system.
Hearing held at 8:00 P.M. on Apr. 29th, 1974 according to duly
published notice f~r a variance to construct a warehouse on the property
of the Central Lumber Co. mn Block 23 of the Village of Elk River.
Only one comment from the public that it be so placed as not to blockthe
view from XHRxR*xK Mr. Pink's house. The building to be pole barn type with
galvanized siding. To be 75 by 52 plus 12 footlean to . To be placed in the
South East corner of the property. The area is zoned C-3 (office Buiading)
M.S.C.tm grant the variance with a 5 foot set back on the East and a 10 foot
setback on the south, and with the proviso that no further expansion on that
site be made in the future.
It was M.S.C. to schedule a hearing for a change of the Zoning Ordinance to
Adopt a street plan for the area between the R.R. tract and Scholl Street and
between Jackson and Proctor, to be held at the May meeting on Wed. May 29th.
A request for a recomendation from the pl~~ning commission concerning
the vacation of a street on the North and East side of Block Block l of
w. H. Houltons Addition to the Village of Elk RIver. Made by Flora Martin, the
owner of Lot 25 of Aud"~ S1.ib~ No.3, in said Village of Elk River r which Lot
abutts a portion of said street on the north, Was considered.
It was pointed out that the road also serves land owned by the Burlington
Northern Roalroad, and was presently useful for access to that land. It was
also pointed out that this land may ~~ll be needed in the exp~~sion tor imp~oy~ent
of U.s. "Highways lO and 52 if the p~o~osed plan for trq!+C ~eyepatipn tn that ~rea
is carried out.
It was M.S.C. that the planning commissiun reccommend that the street bshould
not be vacated.
~€iThe. f~~l h'evoJ;'t ~fJ.a. mapS' conceJ:?n.t:n~ the s.t1).d~{ for the. ezpansion of
the Village l~its by planned ap~exation, by annexation without plan or by
consolidation, etc. It was suggested that before any further action was taken that
a joint meeting with the County planning, the TO~~snip ana the Village be had to
explain the various possibilities.