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7 duly 198 2 P LANN ING REPORT: CASE NUMBER: a 1375-82 APPLICANT LOCATION: Lindig Manufacturing Corporation North of County Road C, Between Fairview Avenue and prior Avenue ACTION REQUESTED: Approval of Front Yard Setback Variance PLAMING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. The Lindig Company is one of the oldest companies in Roseville, having been developed at this location originally in 1952, They have maintained .very attractive grounds, adding to the facility from time to time in the past 15 years. They currently propose to add a 7j,000 square foot (possibly as large as 8,400 square feet) addition to the structure for warehousing purposes. The attached site plan indicates the location of the new structure in the cross - hatched pattern. No changes are proposed in the front yard area (contiguous to County Road C), the area where the variance is being requested* 2w The Light Industrial Zoning District, to which this property is zoned, requires 'a building setback from the front street of 40 feet, with no parking allowed in the 40 feet between the }wilding and the street, In the remaining portion of the front yard the parking may be within 20 feet of the frontage street, At some time in the past, a parking area was constructed near the southeasterly earner of the structure providing four parking spaces # with the southerly most space being right on the property line, This condition may be due to the fact that County Road C was widened in the past, thereby moving the right -of -way line closer to the parking area. e In any case, the location of this parking area rakes the site non-conforming and before the building can be expanded, a variance is required to "legalize" the location of the parking areas that now exist... 3. It is physically possible to replace the four parking spaces by constructing a new parking area near the southwest corner of the site. Mere in an area not in front of the building, the parking would be required to be setback only 20 feet* If this were dome, however, it would destroy a well land- scaped and very attractive yard area on the west and south side of the exi sting building. Though there is a curb cut (servicing an old driveway) off County Road C at this point, one would question whether or not the construction of the parking area in this location would be appropriate or beneficial to the appearance of the site* 4. It would appear that it would be reasonable for the Pl annIng Commission and Council to consider the variance in view of moving the property line