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Planning commission recommends council adopt limited zoning changes to allow cellular towers on large single‑family parcels
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council adopt a citywide zoning text amendment to allow wireless communication towers to be considered in single‑family districts via conditional use permit, while retaining existing lot‑size, setback, spacing and height protections except for limited, staff‑reviewed exceptions.
Forest Lake — The Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council adopt staff‑recommended changes to the city's zoning code that would allow wireless communication towers to be considered in single‑family zoning districts through a conditional use permit (CUP), while keeping the code’s existing safety and spacing protections.
Staff told the commission the proposal before them came from Buell Consulting on behalf of Hosanna Lutheran Church and AT&T and would revise citywide tower rules to give institutional properties a path to host towers. “Staff support adding the single family district to the list of zoning districts where towers can be considered through a CUP,” the staff presenter said.
Why it matters: the applicant asked the city to reduce the minimum lot size for institutional sites from 10 acres to 2.5 acres…
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