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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 14 October 1992 CASE NUMBER: 2478 APPLICANT: Fine Associates LOCATION: 1525 W. County Road C (Lots 3 & 5, Venture 3rd Addition) ACTION REQUESTED: Interim Use Permit for Temporary Parking Lot and Off-Premises sign 1. BACKGROUND Fine Associates is the developer of the property at county Road C and snelling where Slumber land, Investor's savings, Olive Garden, and Roseville Community state Bank are now built, and they still own Lot 5, the vacant parcel directly north of the Olive Garden restaurant. Olive Garden has experienced heavy parking demand since they opened and some employees park in a remote lot at NCR across Snelling Avenue Frontage Road to the northeast. In an attempt to solve both the parking problem and the sale of Lot 5, Fine Associates has proposed a temporary parking lot on Lot 5 for Olive Garden in exchange for a "For Sale" sign on County Road C on the Olive Garden parcel, as illustrated on the attached drawings. The request is for an Interim Use Permit for 18 months for both the parking lot and the real estate sign. Although the two items are combined in the agreement proposed by the two parties (Fine Assoc. and Olive Garden), they are separate requests in the City's process. 2. DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS The property is guided B Business and is zoned B-1B. Banks and larger restaurants, like Olive Garden, are permitted uses. The real estate sign proposed by Fine Associates will be a typical 4' x 8' wooden painted sign on wood posts, similar to many such signs in the community. But off-premises advertising signs are not allowed by the Code. Within an Interim Use Permit, however, such a use can be allowed for a finite period if the city wishes. Th~ sign itself is no different than what would be allowed (without a permit) if the Olive Garden site were for sale. What makes it different is that the sign is advertising another parcel.