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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes — Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Page 5 City Engineer Deb Bloom addressed Commission comments and questions regarding on-street parking restrictions and ticketable offenses (i.e., unlawful for someone to park in private drive at curb line; no parking within 10' of an intersection or 30' from a stop sign). Ms. Bloom noted that, even thought he Fair was a short- term event, it provided practical challenges for the City and residents; but encouraged cooperation and flexibility during this wonderful area event. Discussion included communication efforts by the Fair regarding participation by the park and ride sites; and their specific monitoring of the sites; and the State Fair's discretion regarding their agreements and monitoring of each site. Chair Traynor closed the Public Hearing. Commissioner Roe suggested that the City and State Fair may want to provide more notice to surrounding neighbors regarding the park and ride facilities in order to better quantify future discussion; suggesting that the Fair may wish to consider sending notice to adjacent property owners to those park and ride sites. Chair Traynor and Commissioner poherty were not supportive of the City noticing everyone annually regarding the Fair; but suggested the City's newsletter or other types of communication could serve as methods for reminders and education regarding park and ride facilities and encouraging cooperation. MOTION: Member poherty moved, seconded by Member Boerigter, to recommend approval of a FIVE YEAR EXTENSION to the Minnesota State Fair INTERIM USE PERMIT, allowing park and ride facilities fro the Minnesota State Fair, based on the findings of Section 5 and conditions of Section 6 of the project report dated July 12, 2006; as amended to add condition 7.1(k), with language, "That City staff will investigate inclusion of recycling containers at each park and ride site." Ayes: 5 Nays: 0 Motion carried. Chair Traynor thanked area residents and the park and ride sites for their ' participation and' cooperation each year; and reviewed the process for the July 24, 2006 City Council'review of the Planning Commission recommendation. c. PLANNING FILE 3772 Sky Johnson request for a CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT to allow a drive-thru at Beatnik's Coffee, 1724 Lexington Avenue. Chair Traynor`opened the Public Hearing. City Planner Paschke reviewed the conditional use permit for this request to allow reuse of an existing drive-thru window by Sky Johnson, lessee of the structure located at 1724 Lexington Avenue adjacent to the Dairy Queen building and owned by Lexington Plaza LLC from Wayzata, MN and part of the 6.5 acre retail strip development known as Lexington Plaza Shopping Center. The proposed use of the site would be for a coffee shop, with drive-thru service window. Mr. Paschke noted that the existing service window was a per-existing use/improvement that had not bee used in many years; and the history of the structure were unclear, but were believed to have been used in the past as a bank and one-hour photo processing