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City of Arden Hills Planning Commission Meeting for April 6, 2016 P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2016\PC 16-003 - Arden Square Master & Final PUD - 1160 County Road E\Memos_Reports_16-003 Page 6 of 11 Section 1325.06 – Requirements for Parking, Loading and Circulation Area and Dimensions of Each Parking Space – Meets Requirements The Zoning Code requires individual parking stalls to be at least 9 feet in width and 18 feet in length. All parking stalls shown on the Site Plan conform to this standard. Location – Meets Requirements Off-street parking stalls must be located a minimum of 20 feet from the public right-of-way line and 5 feet from any side or rear property lines. With the proposed expansion of the parking area, parking stalls would be located closer to both the front and west side property lines. The Site Plan indicates parking stalls would be 20 feet from the front property line and 10 feet from the west side property line. Off-Street Parking Spaces Required – Meets Requirements The number of parking stalls required is determined based on the type of land use proposed for a site. The existing tenant in the building, American Red Cross, is classified as a medical clinic. This type of use requires one stall per 200 square feet of gross floor area plus one stall per employee. American Red Cross occupies approximately 5,000 square feet of space in the building and has 10 employees, which means 35 parking stalls would be required for this use. The vacant tenant space is 4,467 square feet in area. The highest intensity use expected to occupy the space is retail, which requires one stall per 150 square feet of gross sales floor space for a maximum requirement of 30 parking stalls. Combined, a medical clinic and retail use on the property would require at most 65 stalls. The proposed parking lot reconfiguration would result in a total of 67 parking stalls on the property. Traffic and Circulation – Meets Requirements Staff has reviewed the configuration of the new one-way parking aisles on the north side of the building and does not have any concerns about their design. The Site Plan indicates both one- way drive aisles would be 17 feet in width. A one-way drive aisle would also wrap around the east and south side of the building and traffic using this drive aisle would be directed to exit at the southwest corner of the site onto the adjacent Arden Plaza property. Vehicles using the drive- up window on the west side of the building would also be required to use this exit. Arden Square has an existing agreement with the Arden Plaza property owner Wellington Management that allows for ingress and egress of vehicles across their property. 2. Chapter 12 – Sign Code – Flexibility Requested All properties with frontage on County Road E are located in Sign District 4. Freestanding signs in this district are required to be a monument-style with the sign copy resting on a solid base of brick or rock-faced block in a color similar or complimentary to the main structure on the site. The material of the base must also extend at least half way up each side of the sign face. The applicant has proposed a monument sign at the northeast corner of the property that would be