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MEMORANDUM DATE: 24 February 1992 Bob Bell TO: FROM: Phil Carlson RE: Amoco Pipeline CompanylRoseville We want your opinion on the zoning issues involved in the above case coming before the Roseville Planning Commission on March 11. The issues are: 1) Variance to the design standards to allow metal buildings in an unusual setting. 2) What constitutes nonnal maintenance of a legal non-confonning use. Back;~mund Amoco Pipeline Company operates the petroleum products transfer and storage facility in Roseville, known as the "tank fann" , on County Road C and Long Lake Road. Amoco wants to upgrade some of their pumping and control equipment housed in small buildings in the interior of the property. The work would involve building two new metal buildings near the existing buildings. Metal-sided buildings like the ones proposed are not allowed under the design standards in the Zoning Code (Section 19.010.1 (d)), and so Amoco is requesting a variance to allow the buildings to be built. The property is guided 1 Industrial, and zoned 1-2 General Industry. Uses allowed by Special Use Pennit in the 1-2 District (Section 10.320) include the "storage of coal and gas", and the "storage and distribution of chemicals". Since they do not currently have a Special Use Penn it, we consider the facility a legal non-confonning use. The proposed buildings are a 44' x 32' (1,408 sq ft) Pump and Motor Building and a 34' x 12' (408 sq ft) Control Building. Both will be located in the small cluster of buildings in the southwestern corner of the site, about 1,000' west of Long Lake Road and 1,300' south of County Road C. To the west of the buildings is railroad right-of-way and then over 800' to the nearest adjacent industrial building. To the south is a stonn pond and the Murphy truck tenninal, over 500' to the nearest building. The adjacent Amoco buildings include several large metal storage tanks, some of which are 120' in diameter. Variance Issue We believe the purpose of the design code is to establish and maintain a minimum standard for visual aesthetics in the community. The proposed buildings will be part of a large and unusual existing development (the tank fann) which does not easily fit within the type of project envisioned by typical zoning standards. Amoco's proposed buildings will be plain and functional. They will be, in our opinion, an insignificant part of the overall facility and will be located far from the view of adjacent streets and neighboring properties, and