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communities of New Brighton, White Bear Lake, Arden Hills, Elk River, Apple Valley, Ramsey, <br />Eagan, Osseo, and Maple Grove. <br /> <br /> <br />Analysis <br /> <br /> <br />The following is a summary of the analysis completed by staff. A complete set of the data is <br />included in Attachment B. Arden Hills requires more square footage for efficiency, one- <br />bedroom, and two-bedroom apartment units compared to the seven-city average. For three- <br />bedroom units, slightly more square footage is required by the seven-city average. Most of the <br />other cities require a greater amount of additional square footage for each additional bedroom <br />than Arden Hills. <br /> <br />Minimum Unit Sizes Allowed by City Code <br />One- Two- Three-Additional <br />Efficiency Unit Bedroom Unit Bedroom Unit Bedroom Unit Bedroom <br /> Minimum (SF) Minimum (SF) Minimum (SF) Minimum (SF) Minimum (SF) <br />Arden Hills 600 700 800 900 100 <br />Seven-City <br />Average 463 601 759 904 145 <br /> <br />In order to determine whether the multi-family developments in other suburban communities <br />could be built in Arden Hills, staff averaged the size of the smallest efficiency, one-bedroom, <br />two-bedroom, and three-bedroo <br />of the smallest average units could be constructed except for the efficiency unit, which is 41 <br />square feet smaller than what is required by the City. The smallest average two-bedroom and <br />three-bedroom units are, respectively, 242 square feet and 520 square feet larger in size than the <br />minimum requirements set by the City. <br /> <br />Smallest Average Unit Size of New Multi-family Developments <br /> <br />Smallest Smallest Smallest Smallest <br />Efficiency Unit One-Bedroom Two-Bedroom Three-Bedroom <br /> (SF) Unit (SF) Unit (SF) Unit (SF) <br />Arden Hills Minimum Unit <br />Size Standards 600 700 800 900 <br />Smallest Average Unit Size <br />(Across 10 Developments) 559 752 1,042 1,420 <br /> <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />City of Arden Hills <br />Planning Commission Meeting for March 5, 2014 <br />P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2014\PC 14-009 - Zoning Code Amendment - Multi-family Design <br />Standards\Memos_Reports_14-009 <br /> <br />25 <br />Page of <br />