09-24-07 Item 4F, PC07-22 CUP at 3900 Bethel Drive

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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF ARDEN HILLS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AND SITE PLAN REVIEW CASE NO. 07-022 1.0 Recitals. A. The Baptist General Conference, a non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Illinois, owns and operates Bethel University, a non-profit institution of higher education ("Permittee"), located on the following real property in the City of Arden Hills, Ramsey County, Minnesota ("Arden Hills"): Those parts of Sections 21, 22, 27 and 28, Township 30, Range 23, lying Westerly and Southerly of the westerly and southerly right-of-way lines of State Trunk Highway No. 51 and Interstate Highway 694 lying northerly of the northerly right-of-way line of the Soo Line Railroad Company and lying northerly and easterly of the northerly and easterly right-of-way lines of State Trunk Highway No 10, except the South y., of the Southeast y., of the Southeast y., of Section 21, Township 30, Range 23, lying east of the easterly line of said Highway No. 10, according to the U.S. Government Survey thereof (herein the "Subject Property"). B. On the 27th day of August, 2007, Permittee submitted a completed application to Arden Hills requesting that its existing conditional use P13rmit be amended and for a site plan review to allow 27 new parking stalls along Seminary Drive, 49 additional spaces in the Upper East Lot North, and 36 additional spaces in the Upper East Lot South ("Parking Expansion Application") on the Subject Property (See Exhibit A: Layout, Finishing, and Landscaping Plan). C. On the 5th day of September, 2007, the Parking Expansion Application was reviewed at a public hearing by the Arden Hills Planning Commission. The Arden Hills Planning Commission considered the recommendations of the Arden Hills staff, the comments of the public and recommended approval of the Parking Expansion Application subject to certain conditions.