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<br />City of Arden Hills <br />Planning Commission Meeting for November 5, 2014 <br /> <br />P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2014\PC 14-028 - Variance - Transwestern 3728 Dunlap Street North\Memos_Reports_14-028 <br />Page 2 of 9 <br /> <br />spaces are needed for the use at 1160 Grey Fox Road. If the Site Plan Review and Variance in <br />Planning Case 14-027 is approved for an additional thirty-three (33) parking spaces then the site <br />at 3728 would only require a parking area for twenty (20) additional parking spaces. <br />Transwestern attempted to fit all the parking spaces within the parcel located at 1160 Grey Fox <br />Road, however, only thirty-three (33) parking spaces could be constructed on the site without <br />completely redesigning the entire parking lot or adding a parking deck or ramp to the site. <br /> <br />In order to address stormwater issues a bio-retention basin has been proposed to capture the <br />additional runoff from the new parking area. The stormwater management plan for this area has <br />been reviewed and conditional approval granted by the Rice Creek Watershed District. <br /> <br />Both of the parcels discussed in this case and in Planning Case 14-027 are owned by the St. Paul <br />Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The City would require that a cross access easement <br />agreement be filed with Ramsey County in order to permit access to the new parking area from <br />Grey Fox Road for the employees at 1160 Grey Fox Road. A parking easement over the <br />dedicated twenty (20) parking spaces would also be required by the City in order to permanently <br />permit the use of these parking spaces by the tenant of 1160 Grey Fox Road <br /> <br />The applicant has submitted a narrative of the proposed project and a response to the variance <br />evaluation criteria (Attachment A), a site plan depicting the proposed construction (Attachment <br />B), and a landscaping and planting island plan (Attachment C). <br /> <br /> <br />1. Site Data <br />Future Land Use Plan: MB – Mixed Business <br />Existing Land Use: LI – Light Industrial <br />Zoning: B-4 Retail Center District <br />Current Lot Sizes: 2.67 Acres <br />Topography: Fairly Flat <br /> <br /> <br />2. Surrounding Area <br />Direction Future Land Use Plan Zoning Existing Land Use <br />North MB – Mixed Business B-4 Retail Center District LI – Light Industrial <br />South I/O – Light Industrial & Office B-3 Service Business District LI – Light Industrial <br />East <br /> COM – Commercial B-3 Service Business District LI – Light Industrial <br />West MB – Mixed Business B-4 Retail Center District LI – Light Industrial <br /> <br />