Planning commission recommends reguiding 420 acres at city’s eastern edge to business park; public raises water, traffic and farmland concerns

The Rosemount Planning Commission on April 22 recommended that the City Council amend the comprehensive plan to reguide approximately 420 acres along the city’s eastern edge — between Emery and Fisher Avenues and bounded roughly by Highway 55 and County Road 42 — from agricultural, community commercial and residential designations to a business‑park land use and to expand the Metropolitan Urban Services Area (MUSA) to serve the site.

Planner Anthony presented the request and noted the change would allow employment‑oriented development and would bring the parcel into the city’s planned scope for municipal water and sewer. “The proposed amendment would also expand the MUSA to bring urban services of sewer and water into that site,” Anthony said, describing the site as a mix of active agriculture and a mineral‑extraction operation on seven parcels owned by two property owners.

Staff and the applicant framed the request as early, policy‑level action to enable future, large‑scale development and to allow the city and utilities to plan arterial realignment and infrastructure. Anthony said the city’s comprehensive plan…