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PLANNING REPORT ------------- - ---. DATE: 7 March --- CASE NUMBER: 2055 -'~ APPLICANT: Church of St. Rose of Lima of Rosetown, Minnesota LOCf- TION: Southeasterly Eldridge and sketch) Quadral1t Hamline of (see ACTION REQUESTED: Variance to Parking Setback and Curb Requirement PLANNING CONSIDERA TlONS: 1. BACKGROUND , ..... The St. Rose of Lima congregation has occupied this site for many years. To our knowledge, most of the facilities were established before 1959 and consisted of a church, school, convent, and parish center that houses general offices. This past summer and fall of 1989, the congregation resurfaced the main parking lot on the east side of the church. Tiley regarded this as a maintenance procedure and did not apply for a permit. City Staff notified the congregation that a permit should have been processed. The parking lot improvements triggered a requirement., that the parking lot be revised so as to conform to parking setbacks (15 feet) and curbing. Current Ordinances in effect for many years require that the periphery of parking lots be curbed with poured-in-place concrete curbing. -----~ The congregation IS now seeking a variance to the parking setback requirement and to the requirement that new curbing be established where none exists on the periphery of the parking lot and/or driveway access points. 2. DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY ------------ Attached is a site plan indicating the church property and structures as they exist on the site. Also indicated to a degree is the location of the parking qrea and the driveway that extends westerly to Hamline between the church and the school buildings. The drawing does not indicate the new parking that was added to the west side of the site in -front of the school. This parking is contiguous to an existing sidewalk and does not encroach (for setback purposes) on the right-of-way of Hamline Avenue as it would if an additional 10 feet of, right-of-way were dedicated. Hamline Avenue is designated as an 86-foot wide right-of-way (by the County Roadway Plan), and the additional 10 feet of the existing 33-foot dedication has not been dedicated. The parking lot as it is constructed, however, does not trigger a requirement that the 10 feet of right-of-way be dedicated at this time. )