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HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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AN INTERIM ORDINANCE TEMPORARILY PROHIBITING THE ISSUANCE
OF SUBDIVISION APPROVAL AND ZONING APPROVALS IN A
DESIGNATED AREA IN NORTHWEST PLYMOUTH
THE CITY COUNCIL OF PLYMOUTH ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS: The following terms used in this ordinance shall
mean:
OFFICIAL Ordinances and regulations which control physical development,
CONTROLS: including ordinances establishing zoning, subdivision controls, site
plan regulations, sanitary codes, building codes, and official maps.
STUDY AREA: The area designated on the attached map dated December 29, 1998,
which is incorporated herein by this reference.
SUBDIVISION: The separation of an area, parcel, or tract of land under single
ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, lots, or long-term
leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest
necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys for residential,
commercial, industrial, or other use or any combination thereof,
except those separations:
A. Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or interests will be 20
acres or larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential uses
and five acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses;
B. Creating cemetery lots;
C. Resulting from court orders or the adjustment of a lot line by the
relocation of a common boundary.
ZONING Rezoning, land use guide plan changes, conditional use permits,
APPROVALS: interim use permits, variances, site plan approval, planned unit
development approval.
SECTION 2. INTENT: It is the intent of this ordinance to allow the City of
Plymouth time to complete an in-depth study concerning adoption of a comprehensive
revision to the City's Comprehensive Plan for the study area and official controls
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implementing the comprehensive plan, and in the interim to protect the planning process
and the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the community.
SECTION 3. TEMPORARY PROHIBITION: Pending the completion of the
above referenced study and the adoption of appropriate official controls, no subdivision
or zoning approvals shall be processed or approved and no application for such approvals
shall be accepted for property in the study area.
SECTION 4. EXEMPTIONS: This ordinance shall not apply to final plat
approval of a subdivision that has been given preliminary approval prior to the effective
date of this ordinance.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its approval and shall remain in effect until the date of the adoption of
the comprehensive plan and official controls contemplated hereunder or January 1, 2000,
whichever occurs first.
ADOPTED by the City Council this 5`'' day of January, 1999.
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ATTEST: �1
Ofie F. Ahrens, City Clerk
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