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RESOLUTION 2002-052
APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE LAND USE PLAN OF THE PLYMOUTH
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN (2001145)
WHEREAS, the City of Plymouth has requested consideration of an amendment to the Land Use
Plan of the Plymouth Comprehensive Plan to change the land uses allowed in the CO
(Commercial Office) guiding designation; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has reviewed said request at a duly called public hearing
and recommends approval.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA, that it should and hereby does approve an amendment
to pages 4-34 and 4-35 of the Land Use Plan of the Plymouth Comprehensive Plan to change the
land uses allowed in the CO (Commercial Office) guiding designation as indicated in Attachment
A, attached hereto and hereby made a part hereof, and
FURTHER, approval of this Comprehensive Plan Amendment is contingent upon, and subject to
the required review and response by the Metropolitan Council.
ADOPTED by the City Council on January 22, 2002.
STATE OF MINNESOTA)
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS.
The undersigned, being the duly qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of Plymouth,
Minnesota, certifies that I compared the foregoing resolution adopted at a meeting of the
Plymouth City Council on January 22, 2002, with the original thereof on file in my office, and the
same is a correct transcription thereof.
WITNESS my hand officially as such City Clerk and the Corporate seal of the City this
day of
City Clerk
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ATTACHMENT A
CO (Commercial Office)
The CO (Commercial Office) guiding designation allows a variety of uses including professional
offices, administrative offices, research and laboratory facilities, wholesale showrooms, service
facilities (e.g., conference centers, lodging and reception halls), > ighef de fis t fess e ftfi ,' „sos
residential facilities (e.g., nursing homes, assisted living, senior citizen housing, and business
uses having limited contact with the general public. These areas may provide for limited retail
sale of convenience -type products and services for the immediately surrounding area.
Commercial uses in this classification are expected to develop with the highest standards of
design and performance, with a higher level of amenities such as landscaping, preservation of
natural features, architectural controls, pedestrian trails and other features. Office parks and
campus -style developments are encouraged in these areas. Commercial offices er--residential
facilities, and senior citizen housing -uses -can also serve as, and provide for, an orderly and
progressive transition between higher and lower intensity land uses.
Guidelines and (711teria
Minimum Area:
Residential Facilities and Senior Citizen
Housin,- Density Range:
City Utilities:
Corresponding Zoning Districts:
• Ten acres for office parks and business campus
developments
• One acre for smaller projects that seine as a transition
between business and residential areas
4-26 to 20 dwelling units per acre
Required in all areas
• B -C (Business Campus District)
• O -R (Office's esidential T.-ans do District)
• Other zoning districts as may be appropriate
Types of Development: • High amenity office facilities (e.g., administrative,
executive, medical, research, professional and
government offices, financial institutions and research
and development laboratories
• Multi diielli gs (e.g. Residential facilities
(e.g., nursing homes, assisted living) and senior citizen
housing, , -.mems .,,,,,.,hooses and- :Hi ,,,. ,itta
housing)
Development Location Criteria: • Abuts or has reasonably direct access to arterials
• In conjunction with major commercial centers
• The high amenity development expected renders the
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CO areas vein suitable as ``gateways" to the City
• Residential ttses—facilities and senior citizen housing
should be near parks or permanent open space (city
park, community playfield, special use park, school
recreation facility, conseivation area, etc.)
• Residential ttses—facilities and senior citizen housing
should be near neighborhood shopping facilities
Desirable Facilities: • Park within 1/2 mile for residential facilities and senior
citizen housing developments
• Sidewalks or trails connecting residential facilities and
senior citizen housing developments to other seivices
and facilities, itiel�such as parks, seheels;
churches and shopping centers
• Transit facilities on residential facilit-v sites and senior
citizen housing sites, or within 1/2 mile walkingdistance of a147such developments