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<br />Page 4 <br />Date: May 24, 2007 <br />To: City of Arden Hills Planning Commission and City Council <br />% Mr. James Lehnhoff, City Planner <br />Re: Celestica Parking Lot Addition - 4300 Round Lake Road West, Arden Hills, MN <br /> <br />Response: It was assumed in the original design that additional parking could have been created <br />along the western portion of the south parking areas. However, as the State of Minnesota's <br />stormwater rules have changed over the past 10 years (as Implemented by the Rice Creek <br />Watershed District) the existing pondlng needs to be expanded in order to accommodate new, <br />more restrictive requirements. With the RCWD approval that was granted on 5123107, their <br />requirement was to expand the existing ponds as much as physically possible, thereby eliminating <br />the potential to create additional parking in the location as originally anticipated. <br /> <br />3. The deviation from the Ordinance with any attached conditions will still be in keeping with the spirit <br />and intent of the Ordinance. <br /> <br />Response: The Gateway Business (GB) Zoning District allows for flexibility in setbacks if the <br />changes will more effectively accomplish the stated purpose of the GB District, which is as stated <br />in Subd. 11 GB Gatewav Business District as: <br /> <br />A. To implement that part of Arden Hills Comprehensive Development Plan known <br />as the 1-694/1-35W Plan. <br />B. To promote high quality, unified, large-scale development in a manner similar to <br />a planned unit development. <br />C. To take full advantage of the site's location as documented and described in the <br />NE 1-694/1-35W Plan. <br />D. To allow only development that will create an attractive environment and a <br />positive image for this site, which is one of the most visible in the community and <br />represents the City's last major development site. <br />E. To protect the site's environmental resources. <br />F. To promote fiexlbility in land uses and deveiopment standards to achieve the <br />objectives of the 1-694/1-35W Plan. <br />G. To allow development that will insure reasonable traffic operation on the internal <br />and surrounding transportation systems. <br /> <br />The planned unit development purpose of the Gateway Business Zoning District should allow for <br />the reduction of the sideyard parking setback that will allow for the construction of the parking as <br />proposed since it will be on an internal sideyard property line that lies entirely within the Gateway <br />Business District. <br /> <br />4. The variance will not create a land use not permitted in the zone. <br /> <br />Response: The variance will accommodate additional parking which is a use that is permitted in <br />the GB Zoning District. <br /> <br />5. The variance will not alter the essential character of the City. <br /> <br />Response: The essential character of the City within the Gateway Business District is to create a <br />high quality, unified, large-scale development in a manner similar to a planned unit development, <br />to promote flexibility in land uses and development standards to achieve the objectives of the 1- <br />69411-35W Plan and to allow only development that will create an attractive environment and a <br />positive image for this site, which is one of the most visible In the community and represents the <br /> <br />7200 Hudson Blvd. Suite 110 OAKDALE, MINNESOTA 55128 <br />PHONE (651) 739-8131 FAX (651) 739-0846 <br />www.proterradesign.com <br />