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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Department Approval: ~ID ., tern escnptlOn: DATE: 8-26-96 ITEM NO.: H-6 Manager Reviewed: Agenda Section: ~&- Hearing Scott Wicklund request for a conditional use permit to operate a Truck and Trailer rental business and a variance to the zoning code for outside storage at 1450 W. County Rd. C. Background Scott Wicklund, representing MIDC Enterprises is a tenant of a building located at 1450 W. County Road C. This building is owned by Joy Albrecht. Wicklund is proposing 1) to establish a Truck and Trailer rental operation (V-Haul), and 2) to expand a pre-existing non-conforming exterior storage land use at his site located at 1450 County Road C. The size definition of truck rental has been agreed to by the applicant: truck or trailers with a box length of 26 feet or less and a gross weight of no more than 26,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight. The applicant has met with the abutting residential neighbors to the south and attempted to solve their concerns regarding noise, landscaping and screening The site is 1.02 acre in size. The site is currently occupied by the 3,800 sf. MIDC building and the accessory storage area. The site is designated for "I" (Industrial Uses) in the City's Comprehensive Land Use Guide Plan and is zoned 1-1 (Light Industrial Uses). The Comprehensive Plan also states that the area between Snelling and Hamline, along the south side of County Road C should be part of a master plan study wherein "a number of uses are possible as long as they provide effective buffers to the single family areas to the south"(p.15-Landuse). This buffer should extend from Snelling Curve on the west to the Kath Building and Business Condos on the east. The planning staffhas been working with the city landscape architect to design a landscape screen/buffer master plan for this entire area. At the August 12, 1996 meeting, the City Council continued the hearing on this motion to August 26, 1996 to allow time for the applicant to fully understand the requirements of the County Road C Buffer Study. Development Summary The property under consideration with this application is zoned I-I light Industrial. In this district, vehicle rental activities are permitted as conditional use permits and are subject to the conditions in Section 1007.02D12 in the City Code. The outdoor storage for pipe and landscape materials that MIDC is proposing is normally not permitted in an "1-1" zone as per Section 1007.02B but has been a continuing, pre-existing use since the mid 1960's and should only be expanded or improved as part of the conditions attached to the site plan approval of the conditional use permit. MIDC is proposing to reconfigure the site plan but keep approximately the same amount (13,000 s.f.) of impervious paved surface. Within the parking lots, no concrete curbs are proposed as required by the city design standards, Section 1010.05. Unless additional impervious surface is installed, water run-off is about the same and no retention permit is being pursued by the applicant. 1