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I , " ROYALi~OAKS . - REALTY, INC. ARDEN HILLS OFFICE PARK DEVELOPMENT , ! Royal Oaks Realty, Inc. is proposing to construct office buildings on the old City Hall site. The property is located on the south side of Highway 96 and a short distance west of Hamline Avenue. The subject property consist of six separate parcels of land totaling 8.09 gross acres. The net area of the land, omitting the Highway 96 right of way, is 6.83 acres. The easterly portion of the land is currently zoned N-B Neighborhood Business. The westerly portion of the land is zoned Single Family Residential and is currently being considered by the City of Arden Hills for N-B Neighborhood Business zoning. The surrounding zoning is CC Civie Center District on the north side of Highway 96, Single Family Residential to the west along Keithson Drive, R-3 Townhouse & Low Density Multiple Density to the south(Arden Hills North Homes Association) and N-B . Neighborhood Business ( Children's World Learning Center) to the east along Hamline Avenue. This development proposal is for thirty office units (in seven separate buildings totaling 76,000 sq. ft.) to be constructed with a residential architectural design and appearance. Like townhomes, each unit will be subdivided and platted with an underlying lot and sold individually. The remaining property (lot 31) will be owned in common, All exterior buildings and grounds will be governed and maintained by an Owners Association. A Planned Unit Development (PUD) is being requested mainly for the purpose of platting individual lots in the same manner as a medium density residential townhome development. A subdivision would not be necessary for one large office building to be constructed and leased. The PUD process also allows minor variations from the N-B zoning standards which are addressed later in this narrative. Access to the site is proposed to and from Highway 96 and Harnline A venue. The existing driveway from Highway 96, formerly used for City hall, will be improved and used with right in right out movement only. A service drive will be construeted within an existing easement on the south side of the Children's World Day Care facility allowing full tuming movement on and off Hamline Avenue. A traffic study has been done which concludes that with some minor improvements, the existing roadway network can safely accommodate the additional traffic to be generated with this development. . '1000 County Road E West, Suite 150. Shoreview, Minnesota 55126. (651) 483-5518. Fax (651) 483-5642 www.royaloaksrealty.com