ROCHESTER — A local construction company that wants to build its business along Marion Road in southeast Rochester is asking for approval of an initial step Monday.
SHS Construction owners, Jorden and Kelsey Serrano, are asking for a change to the city’s land-designation on nearly four acres currently housing Everything Hobby and its remote-control racetrack.
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According to a memo sent to the city by Vanessa Hines, a Widseth engineer, the Serranos started their business in 2022 and it’s grown to include seven employees. With the growth, they want to purchase the site at 2221 Marion Road SE to continue growing the business that specializes in residential and commercial remodeling, as well as providing handyman services.
While the site has been used by Everything Hobby since 1993, when Olmsted County changed the area’s rural zoning, it was officially rezoned for residential use when it and surrounding properties were annexed into the city 16 years later.
Rochester Community Development planner Elliot Mohler recently told the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission the 2009 designation did not match several of the uses that existed prior before the area’s annexation.
“Marion Road is a unique area of the city,” he said. “It has many different uses along it, including residential, including business, including industrial.”
The Everything Hobby site sits back from Marion Road, with vacant land to the east and west of the parcel. Homes are developed south of the site, and a mix of residential and commercial uses site to the north.
Mohler said the high volume of traffic makes the area best suited for commercial uses, even though residential uses exist.
The commission voted unanimously to recommend the council change the land-use designation to “small employment development,” which would be the first step in allowing the construction company to purchase the property and develop its business on the site.
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The Rochester City Council will hold a public hearing on the request during its 6 p.m. meeting Wednesday in council chambers of the city-county Government Center before making a decision on the requested change.
The next required step in the process, changing zoning from residential to a commercial use, has already been initiated, with SHS Construction holding a neighborhood meeting on Jan. 14 and submitting an official request two days later for city review.
Once the application is reviewed by local and state staff, the zoning request will be reviewed by Rochester’s Planning and Zoning Commission for a second recommendation to the City Council, which will make the final decision at a future meeting.
Upcoming meetings
Meetings scheduled to be held during the week of Jan. 20 include:
Rochester
• Public Utility Board, 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Rochester Public Utilities community room, 4000 East River Road NE.
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• City Council, 6 p.m. Wednesday in council chambers of the city-county Government Center, 151 Fourth St. SE. The meeting will livestream at
www.rochestermn.gov/meetings/council-meetings
and be available on Spectrum cable channel 180 or 188.
• Ethical Practices Board, 10:30 a.m. Thursday in room 104 of City Hall, 201 Fourth St. SE.
Olmsted County
• Physical Development Committee, 1 p.m. Tuesday in conference room 1 of the Government Center.
• Health, Housing and Human Services Committee, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in conference room 2 of the Government Center.
• Administrative Committee, 4 p.m. Tuesday in conference room 1 of the city-county Government Center.
• Board of County Commissioners, 6 p.m. Tuesday in the board chambers of the Government Center.
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• Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments, noon Wednesday in conference room 186 at 2122 Campus Drive SE in Rochester.
• Soil and Water Conservation District Board, 8 a.m. Thursday in conference room 109 at 1188 50th St. SE Rochester
Rochester Public Schools
• School Board, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the boardroom of the Edison Building, 615 Seventh St. SW.
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