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<br />City of Arden Hills <br />Planning Commission Meeting for April 6, 2016 <br />P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2016\PC 16-003 - Arden Square Master & Final PUD - 1160 County Road E\Memos_Reports_16-003 <br />Page 3 of 11 <br />on County Road E would be 13 feet in height with a copy area of 70 square feet. The Sign Code <br />limits freestanding signs in this district to 10 feet in height and copy area of 50 square feet. <br /> <br />3. Surrounding Area: <br />Direction Future Land Use Plan Zoning Existing Land Use <br />North Community Mixed Use B-2: General Business District Multi-Family Residential, <br />Commercial <br />South Community Mixed Use B-2: General Business District Commercial <br />East Community Mixed Use B-2: General Business District Commercial <br />West Community Mixed Use B-2: General Business District Office <br /> <br /> <br />4. Site Data: <br />Future Land Use Plan: Community Mixed Use <br />Existing Land Use: Commercial <br />Zoning: B-2: General Business District <br />Lot Size: 48,000 square feet <br />Topography: Relatively flat <br /> <br /> <br />Plan Evaluation <br /> <br />1. Chapter 13, Zoning Code Review <br /> <br />Section 1320 – District Provisions <br /> <br />A. Lot Size, Structure Coverage, and Landscaping – Flexibility Requested <br /> <br />Properties in the B-2 District are required to provide minimum landscape coverage of 20 percent. <br />The proposed modifications would increase the overall parking lot area by 2,182 square feet and <br />add 657 square feet of new walkways or sidewalks on the property. As a result, landscape <br />coverage would decrease by 2,839 square feet to 14.6 percent of the total lot area. The current <br />landscape coverage on the lot is 20.5 percent. <br /> <br />The proposal does not include an expansion of the existing building on the property. The current <br />structure coverage is 19.9 percent, which is less than the maximum structure coverage of 45 <br />percent permitted in the B-2 District. <br /> <br />