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City of Farmington
430 Third Street
Farmington, MN 55024
AGENDA
PLANNING COMMISSION
May 12, 2009
7:00 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a) April 14, 2009
3. PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
4. DISCUSSION
a) Discussion of Ordinance Amendment - Zoning Definitions
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b) Discussion of Ordinance Amendments - Recreational Vehicle Parking and Parking in Residential Areas
c) Discussion Ordinance Amendments - Detached Garages, Storage Sheds, and Accessory Structures
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City of Farmington
430 Third Street
Farmington, Minnesota
651.280.6800 . Fax 651.280.6899
www.ci.farmington.mn.us
TO:
Planning Commission
Tony Wippler, Assistant City Planner ~
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Discussion of Ordinance Amendment Regarding Zoning Definitions
DATE:
May 12,2009
INTRODUCTION
As the City of Farmington prepares to amend its official controls as part of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan
update, it is critical that staff, the Planning Commission, and the City Council evaluate the current zoning code
and make any changes deemed necessary.
DISCUSSION
Attached, for Planning Commission discussion, is a draft ordinance amending Title 10, Chapter 2 of the Zoning
Code as it pertains to definitions. Upon staff review of the established zoning districts and uses identified
within, it was discovered a number of the existing zoning uses were not defined in the zoning code. The
proposed ordinance includes those missing definitions that were previously identified.
ACTION REQUESTED
Provide comments on the proposed definitions within the draft ordinance.
Respectfully submitted,
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TO~PPler, Assistant City Planner
CITY OF FARMINGTON
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 10-2-1 OF THE ZONING CODE
AS IT RELATES TO DEFINITIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FARMINGTON ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. The City of Farmington City Code, 10-2-1 Definitions is amended by adding the language below
and deleting the strikethrough language as follows:
Auction House: A place of business that conducts auctions on site.
Auto Sales: The use of any building or land area for the display and sale of new or used automobiles,
trucks, vans, or recreational vehicles including any major or minor automobile repair or service uses
conducted as an accessory use.
Car Wash: Any building or portion thereof used for the cleaning or washing of motor vehicles.
Cemeteries: A parcel or tract of land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead including
columbariums, crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated within the boundaries of such
cemetery .
Churches: A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble
for religious worship and which buildings and uses are maintained and controlled by a religious body
organized to sustain regular public worship.
Coffee Shops: A small restaurant and/or cafe where assorted drinks and snacks are sold to the general
retail public.
Commercial Recreation, indoor: A commercial recreational use available to the general public that is
completely contained within a building.
Commercial Recreation, outdoor: A commercial recreational use available to the general public that is
outside.
Dental Laboratories: A facility that produces dental restorations as requested by a licensed dentist.
Dental laboratories may produce dentures, crowns, or other dental restorations such as implant crowns.
Equipment Maintenance and Storage Facility: A facility for maintenance, repair or storage of
equipment on property owned by the owner of said equipment.
Food Processing Facilities: A facility that transforms raw ingredients into food or transforms food into
other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing
industry .
Funeral Homes: A building that provides facilities for funerals; a chapel for funeral services; rooms for
viewing the remains in caskets (slumber rooms, reposing rooms, viewing rooms, visitation rooms)
before final services or cremation; rooms for preparation of bodies (embalming, cosmetic treatment and
clothing of the deceased); display rooms and storage for caskets; garages for hearses and other
equipment; and administrative offices. A funeral home may include family living quarters for the
funeral director/owner.
Golf Courses: The land upon which individuals play the game of golf, with a green and a flag. The golf
course may include a clubhouse, and various accessory buildings.
Grocery Stores: A place of business established primarily for the retailing of food.
Group Daycare Centers, commercial: Any State licensed facility, public or private, which for gain or
otherwise regularly provides one or more persons with care, training, supervision, habilitation,
rehabilitation, or developmental guidance on a regular basis, for periods less than twenty four (24) hours
per day, in a place other than the person's own home. Commercial Groups Daycares include, but are not
limited to: family daycare homes, group family daycare homes, daycare centers, day nurseries, nursery
schools, daytime activity center, day treatment programs and other "nonresidential programs" as defined
by Minnesota Statute section 245A.02, subdivision 10.
Manufacturing Facilities: Facilities that manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, treatment
or assembly of products and materials that mayor may not emit objectionable and offensive influences
beyond the lot on which the use is located. Such uses include, but are not limited to: sawmills,
refineries, commercial feedlots; acid; cement; explosives; flour, feed, and grain milling or storage;
meatpacking and slaughterhouses; coal or tar asphalt distillation; rendering of fat, grease, lard or tallow;
alcoholic beverages; poisons; exterminating agents; glue or size; lime; gypsum; plaster of Paris;
tanneries; automobile parts; paper and paper products; glass chemicals, crude oil and petroleum products
including storage; electric power generation facilities; vinegar works; junkyard; auto reduction yard;
foundry forge; casting metal products; rock, stone, cement products; lumberyards; machine shops;
products assembly; sheet metal shops; plastics; electronics; general nonalcoholic beverages; signs and
displays; printing; publishing; fabricated metal parts; appliances; clothing; textiles and used auto parts.
Ministorage Units: A building or series of buildings consisting of individual, small, self-contained units
that are leased or owned for the storage of business and/or household goods.
Non-Commercial Nursery: A place where trees, flowering and decorative plants and shrubs are grown
on site which may be conducted within a building or without and where the items grown are not sold to
the general retail public.
Parking Lots: An off-street, at grade, uncovered area, utilized for the temporary storage of motor
vehicles.
Public Buildings: Any building and or structure owned or operated by municipality, school district,
county, state, or other governmental unit.
Public Utility Buildings: An occupied structure, building or mechanical facility owned and operated by
a public or private utility company which occupies less than 500 square feet ofland area.
Public Gardens: Public gardens include botanic garden, arboreta, historic landscapes, conservatories,
and display gardens. These gardens focus on display, evaluation, conservation, and research of plants in
landscaped and natural settings.
Public Parks and Playgrounds: Any land owned or leased by the City for the use of the public for active
or passive recreation.
Recreational Equipment, Sales, Service and Repair: A use that sells, services and repairs recreational
vehicles and equipment.
Recreational Vehicle Storage Facilities: Any facility and/or property utilized for the storage, either
temporarily or permanently, of recreational vehicles on property not owned by the owner(s) of the
recreational vehicle.
Retail Sales and Service: A use engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for
personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.
Seasonal Produce Stands: A temporary use for the purposes of selling seasonal produce.
School, Private: Any building or group of buildings, not operated by a public agency or unit of
government, the use of which meets compulsory education laws of the State of Minnesota, for
elementary school, middle school Gunior high school), secondary (senior high school), or higher
education and which use does not secure the major part of its funding directly from any governmental
source.
School, Public: Any building or group of buildings, the use of which meets compulsory education laws
of the State of Minnesota, for elementary school, middle school Gunior high school), secondary (senior
high school), or higher education and which secures all or the major part of its funding from
governmental sources and is operated by a public agency or governmental unit.
Warehousing Facilities: A building and or facility used primarily for the extended storage of goods and
materials.
Wholesale Businesses: A business which sells goods, equipment and materials by bulk to another
business or final customer.
SECTION 2. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be effective upon its passage and publication according to
law.
ADOPTED this _ day of
,2009, by the City Council of the City of Farmington.
CITY OF FARMINGTON
By:
Todd Larson, Mayor
ATTEST:
By:
Peter Herlofsky, City Administrator
SEAL
By:
Joel Jamnik, City Attorney
Published in the Farmington Independent the
day of
, 2009.
City of Farmington
325 Oak Street
Farmington, Minnesota
651.463.7111 . Fax 651.463.2591
www.ci.farmington.mn.us
TO:
Planning Commission
Lee Smick, AICP ( Q 9J
City Planner ~ 00
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Discussion of Ordinance Amendments - Recreational Vehicle Parking and
Parking in Residential Areas
DATE:
May 12,2009
INTRODUCTIONI DISCUSSION
The City Council approved the drainage and utility easement amendment on May 5, 2008. The
amendment consisted of allowing only turf and fences within an easement to ensure that
easements are free of structures and hard surfaces. Because of this approval, the Recreational
Vehicle Parking code needs to be reviewed. This code allows for the parking of recreational
vehicles up to the property line if an owner installs landscape rock with edging. Of course, this
allowance would be in conflict with the approved drainage and utility easement amendment,
since landscape material (rocks and edging) would not be allowed within an easement. Staff has
presented a proposed text amendment to the recreational vehicle parking code below because the
drainage and utility easement amendment eliminates the encroachment of landscape material
from drainage and utility easements. Additionally, staff is proposing to revise the language for
parking in residential areas from maintaining a 5-foot setback for pavement to requiring the
pavement to be located outside of a setback or drainage and utility easement.
ACTION REQUESTED
Provide comments to the proposed code amendments stated above.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lee Smick, AICP
City Planner
CITY OF FARMINGTON
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 10-6-4 (L)
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKING AND SECTION 10-6-4 (M)
PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FARMINGTON ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. The City of Farmington City Code, 10-6-4 (L) Recreational Vehicle
Parking, is amended by adding the underlined language and deleting the strikethIough
language as follows:
Recreational vehicles parked on residential property shall be registered to the owner
or lessee of the property and display a current license and may be parked or stored on
the lot as follows:
1. In the front yard, provided they are kept on a hard surfaced driveway. Recreational
vehicles may not be parked in front of the principal building on a residential lot.
Recreational vehicles may not be parked or stored on public property. Recreational
vehicles parked on street right of way must comply with section 9-1-9 of this code.
2. In the side or rear yard, recreational vehicles shall be parked or stored on asphalt,
concrete, or decorative landscape rock.
(a) All hard surfaced parking areas in the side or rear yard shall maintain a five foot
(5') setback from the side or rear lot lines. not be located within the side or rear
yard setbacks or drainage and utility easements.
(b) All decorative landscape rock parking areas may be located in the side or rear
yards abutting the property line. but shall not be located within the side or rear yard
setbacks or drainage and utility easements. The decorative rock parking areas shall
be installed to a depth of four inches (4") and lined with a commercial grade weed
preventative mesh under the rock to impede the growth of weeds. No class V(5)
rock or gravel is allowed. Edging shall be installed to prevent the rock from
spreading from the designated parking area. The designated parking area may not
impede the drainage vlithin the side or rear yard utility easements or inhibit access
to the easements. (Ord. 002-476, 5-6-2002)
SECTION 2. The City of Farmington City Code, 10-6-4 (M) Parking In Residential
Areas, is amended by adding the underlined language and deleting the strikethr{)ugh
language as follows:
All vehicles shall be parked on a asphalt or concrete haffi surfaceg driveway or
parking apron. All parking areas shall maintain a five foot (5') setback from side and
rear lot lines. not be allowed within a setback or drainage and utility easement. (Ord.
002-469,2-19-2002)
SECTION 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be effective upon its passage and
publication according to law.
ADOPTED this _day of
Farmington.
, 2009, by the City Council of the City of
CITY OF FARMINGTON
By:
Todd Larson, Mayor
ATTEST:
By:
Peter Herlofsky, City Administrator
SEAL
By:
City Attorney
Published in the Farmington Independent the _ day of
,2009.
-.
City of Farmington
325 Oak Street
Farmington, Minnesota
651.463.7111 . Fax 651.463.2591
www.ci.farmington.mn.us
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Lee Smick, AICP I ~9i
City Planner ""'DO
SUBJECT: Discussion of Ordinance Amendments - Detached Garages, Storage Sheds, and
Accessory Structures
DATE: May 12,2009
INTRODUCTION
Staff would like to discuss the following concerning sheds and detached garages:
1. Increasing the maximum size of a storage shed to 240 square feet in size and anything at or
below 240 square feet would require that the storage shed is anchored to the ground.
2. A detached garage would be an accessory structure exceeding the 240 square foot minimum
up to a maximum size depending on the lot size or the size of the principal structure.
3. A building permit would be required for any accessory structure above 120 square feet.
4. Any accessory structure shall be located at least 10 feet away from any structure including
buildings, billboards, carports, porches, signs, retaining walls, decks and other building
features, but not including sidewalks, drives, fences and patios.
5. A paved driveway to a detached garage is currently required in the Code.
DISCUSSION
Detached Garages
Staff proposes to insert the definition of detached garage into Section 10-2-1 of the City Code to
read as follows:
GARAGE. DETACHED: An accessory structure that is detached from the principal building
and requires a garage door with the ability to park a vehicle within the structure. The accessory
structure is to be constructed of similar materials as the principle structure. Access to a garage
requires a paved driveway.
* A determination on the paved driveway requirement is still pending.
The Code for an attached garage is as follows:
GARAGE, PRIVATE: An accessory structure or accessory use of a principal structure which is
intended for and used to store the private passenger vehicles and trucks not exceeding twelve
thousand (12,000) pounds' gross weight, of the family or families resident upon the premises,
and in which no business service or industry is carried on. Access to a garage requires a paved
driveway.
The size range for a detached garage is minimum of 240 square feet and maximum of 1,000,
1,250, or 1,500 square feet depending on the size of the lot. The 240 square feet (12' x 20') is
the smallest structure that a vehicle could be located within. The maximum size of the detached
garage is also dependent upon the size of the principal structure. For instance, if a principal
structure is 950 square feet, the maximum size of the detached garage may only be 950 feet.
This requirement has been in the City Code for many years.
Additionally, the detached garage would need to be constructed of similar materials as the
principle structure.
Storage Shed
City staff is proposing to include "storage" shed as an accessory structure and proposes the
following language in the Section 10-2-1 of the City Code:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE: A structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily
incidental and subordinate to, the principal structure including but not limited to a detached
garage and storage shed.
Because of the new sizes in sheds and the increase of complaints about storage of items outside
on residential properties, City staff is proposing to increase the maximum size of a storage shed
to 240 square feet rather than the current 120 square-foot requirement. Staff is also proposing to
require a building permit for any accessory structure over 120 square feet. Staff has researched
a number of communities concerning its requirements for building permits for accessory
structures. Over forty communities such as Andover, Maple Grove, Ramsey, Inver Grove
Heights, Rosemount, Bloomington, and Lakeville responded to a staff request concerning the
community's requirement for an accessory structure building permit and the cost of the permit.
Most of the communities stated that they require building permits for accessory structures over
120 square feet. All of the communities surveyed stated that they require accessory structures to
be anchored, which is currently the requirement of Farmington as stated in Section 10-6-6 of the
Code.
ACTION REOUESTED
Provide comments to the proposed code amendments stated above.
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Lee Smick, AICP
City Planner