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<br />with all the marketing activities, the office market has been slow to improve, Peter Carlson of
<br />Chesapeake states in his letter that the extension of their Master Plan POO would allow them to
<br />be more successful in promoting the sites to major tenants who tend to be very risk averse,
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<br />It is important to recognize that the Chesapeake Master Plan POO would potentially include up
<br />to two eight story office buildings, This sort of development is more consistent with what you
<br />typically see at major interstate junctions than the underlying Gateway Business Zoning would
<br />otherwise produce. The Gateway Business Zoning District appears to be geared toward
<br />office/warehousing users and most likely did not adequately plan for the future potential of the
<br />Northeast Quadrant property. Granting an extension to the Chesapeake Master Plan PUD not
<br />only gives Chesapeake certainty, it gives the City of Arden Hills certainty that a high caliber
<br />development would be built on the property within the parameters established through the POO,
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<br />While it seems advantageous to grant the extension to the Master Plan POO, it would also be in
<br />the City's best interest to reserve the right for an updated traffic study, EA W, or other
<br />supplementary documents as necessary at the time of application for the Final Plan POO, If
<br />there are additional development regulations that change significantly between now and the time
<br />of application for the Final Plan POO, the City should also reserve the right to have Chesapeake
<br />comply with those regulations, Staff has included this language as a condition of approval.
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<br />Staff Recommendation
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<br />Staffrecommends approval ofthe requested one-year extension (to allow Chesapeake
<br />Companies to submit a Final Plan PUD no later than September 25, 2005) subject to the
<br />applicant continuing to abide by the 13 existing conditions of approval and adding a 14th
<br />condition of approval. The conditions of approval would read as follows:
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<br />1. The proposed document "Gateway Business Center--Arden Hills, MN, Proposed Planned
<br />Unit Development Design Standards", revision dated March 7, 2001, be amended
<br />accordingly (additions are shown in CAPS, language removed is striekefl):
<br />a) Page 1, Purpose and Intent, third line of the first paragraph should read, ",.. consist of A
<br />PREDOMINA TEL Y office DEVELOPMENT and supporting ancillary uses". ";
<br />b) Page 1, Permitted Uses, strike #1 relating to antennas and add it under Permitted
<br />Accessory Uses;
<br />c) Page 1, Permitted Accessory Uses, #1 should read, "Any incidental assembly, repair,
<br />processing, CLASS I manufacturing, , ,"
<br />d) Page 2, Permitted Accessory Uses, #7 should read, "Day Care Nursery WITH LESS
<br />THAN TEN CHILDREN";
<br />e) Page 2, Lot Area, Lot Width, and yard Requirements, #1, should read, "Lot Area: One
<br />acre minimum, NOT TO EXCEED TWO LOTS OF THIS SIZE"
<br />f) Page 4, Building Design and Materials, #4, last line of the paragraph, should read, ".. .of
<br />the fayade, ACCESSORY BUILDINGS SHALL MEET THE SAME BUILDING
<br />MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS AS PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS. Allowable materials".";
<br />g) Page 4, Building Design and Materials, #4 B, should read as follows, "Secondary exterior
<br />building materials may be decorative block (LIMITED TO SINGLE STORY
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