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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 02-27-95 ITEM NO.: G-6 Manager Reviewed: Agenda Section: Department Approval: Hearin Ken Kath request for a special use permit for the rental and leasing of automobiles and appeal for a night watchman facility at 2611 Hamline Avenue North. ~~ Background 1. As we indicated to the Commission at the January 1995 meeting, Mr. Kath began construction of a spec retail building, approximately 20,000 sq. ft. in size on the property located in the southwest quadrant of Hamline Avenue and County Road C during the summer of 1994. The shell is completed at this time and is awaiting tenant finish out. The property is zoned B-3 General Business and most retail uses are permitted uses in that district. At the January meeting, Mr. Kath presented plans for a 1400 sq. ft. single family residential unit with an 866 sq. ft. garage attached to it. It was Mr. Kath's position that this was a night watchman's residence and that under Section 8.235 of the Rosevi1le Zoning Ordinance, he felt it was a permitted accessory use in this business district. The Planning Commission indicated that it was the Commission's feeling that the size of the facility was more than a night watchman's residence. Mr. Kath appeared before the City Council with a proposal that reduced the residential unit down to 570 sq. ft. with the attached 866 sq. ft. garage. The Council directed Mr. Kath to return to the Planning Commission with this revised plan to develop a definition of a night watchman's residence and to refine the definition. Proposed Definition The staff prepared the following definition of a night watchman's residence which is a permitted use in a business district: a. Such a space is an accessory use to be used for office and living area for a person to fulfill the duties as night watchman in the primary structure and principle use. b. Such space is to be limited to 600 sq. ft. or less of combined living and office space. c. The living area is to be the equivalent of a studio apartment, to be occupied only by the watchman as designated by the building owner/property manager (not to be. used as a separate rental dwelling unit). d. The watchman's residence must be an integral part of the principle structure (not an add-on or separate structure).