5.7. PCSR 03-09-2010Action requested
Staff recommends approval of the Ordinance as drafted.
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The location of certain uses adult uses, pawn shops, smoke or tobacco shops, etc is regulated, in
part, by their proximity to other land uses, The intent of the separation requirement is to separate
these uses from each other and less intense uses, more children-dominated areas.
Pawn shops are prohibited from being within 250 feet from a residential zone, and 500 feet from
schools, parks, day care centers, churches and other pawnshops, measured from the property line,
Park is an undefined term, and is commonlythought to include public or private areas reserved for
recreation open to the public.
~n terms of applying the distance requirements, this definition is inadequate. For example, is a body
of water Mississippi River, Lake arono} a park? Are the fairgrounds a parka
Staff has prepared an ordinance that attempts to define park for the purposes of applying distance
requirements in Section 30, Land Development Regulations.
"Parks shall mean public or private land dedicated or designated for passive or active recreational
uses, including, but not ' 'ted to dedicated city, county, or state parks and open space, private
parks, and county fairgrounds. "
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Draft ordinance
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ANI ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELK RIVER AMENDIING
~CTI S 30-i THIS {C RId CITI( DE F RDI CES 't'
EFI1~ BARKS S PAii°T F 'rl~l SEPE °TI~N UIF~E 17'S F
CERTAIN USES
The CitST Council of the City of Elk River does hereby ordain as follows:
Section ~.. That Section 34-~ of the City of Ells River Code of ordinances
enumerating words, terms and phrases shall be amended to add the following;
Parks shall paean public or private land dedicated or designated for passive or active recreational uses,
including, but not limited to dedicated city, county, or state parks and open space, private parks, and
counter fairgrounds.
Section 2, That this o~•dinance shall tale effect upon. publication as provided bylaw.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of tlae Cite of Elk River this day of
Stephanie Kl.inzing, Mayor
ATTEST:
Tina Allard, City Clerk
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