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City of Arden Hills City Council Meeting for September 28, 2020 P:\Planning\Planning Cases\2020\20-010 4200 Round Lake Road PP PUD\CC Packets Page 2 of 9 A. District Provisions 1320.13- Flexibility requested According to City Code Section 1320.13, office uses cannot occupy less than 25 percent of a project's total floor area and not more than 50 percent. In addition, warehousing and wholesaling uses shall not exceed 75 percent of the building in which it is located. While the final tenants are unknown at this time, the Applicant is anticipating to attract a wide variety of light industrial tenants with uses including office, manufacturing, research and development, and/or warehousing. The Applicant is requesting flexibility to increase this requirement for warehousing and wholesaling to 85 percent and the remaining 15 percent dedicated to non-warehouse uses such as a combination of uses including-but-not-limited-to office, manufacturing, production, R&D, lab and/or showroom. The Applicant would like to further discuss the Council proposed 80 percent warehouse and 20 percent office split. B. Minimum Caliper Inches – Flexibility Requested Tree mitigation is not required as the current site has no trees deemed significant per City Code. The Zoning Code requires that a minimum number of caliper inches of trees be provided based on the gross square footage of the building on the property. A single story building in excess of thirty (30) feet in height shall be considered a two-story building for the purposes of determining gross square footage. The proposed building would be considered two-stories, and includes 499,552 gross square feet. This requires a minimum of 1,561 caliper inches or 624 two inch caliper trees. The proposed site is limited to where trees can be planted onsite due the wetlands and overhead power lines. The Applicant was previously proposing 310 caliper inches or 110 trees. In response to City Council comments the Applicant has added 100 caliper inches or 31 trees in the areas identified in the image below. The total proposed is 410 caliper inches or 210 trees. Staff has reviewed City Code and has spoken with the City Attorney and given the request for flexibility via the PUD process the Council could request off-site tree planting or fee in lieu for the minimum caliper inches standard. The Applicant would like to further discuss this with the Council at the upcoming meeting.