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3.3 The applicant (Bradley) must submit a utility plan and all utility and drainage easement documents and legal description for the easement to the Engineering Department. The City must release the existing utility and drainage easement upon the recording of the new utility and drainage easement. 3.4 No hearing or other site plan review of the proposed Cub store is required if Cub meets all code requirements. However, the vacation of this easement ultimately leads to the decision of whether a 24 hour Cub Food grocery store may be placed on the former HomePlace site, staff has reviewed the HomePlace-to-Cub Food redevelopment proposal against Sections 1006.02.C and 1005.01D.2.d of the Roseville City Zoning Code. These zoning requirements relate to lot coverage and off-street parking requirements respectively. The easement vacation and relocation will not affect either lot coverage or parking requirements. Based on staff review and code interpretation, staff has determined the redevelopment would increase the lot coverage of the site to between 24.9% and 25.17%, depending on the method of measurement. This overage (0.17% over the code required 25% lot coverage) is not considered a significant variation from the master plan. It is, however, the maximum allowable building square footage that can be placed on this site. A comparison to other shopping centers was also completed (See Attachment A, B, and C). 3.5 Given the allowances for joint parking under Section 1005.01.E and the proposed number of overall off-street parking spaces, staff concludes the vacation, relocation of the easement, and subsequent construction of the Cub Food grocery store will not have an impact on off- street parking. Staff has calculated the gross square footage of all tenant spaces within Har Mar Mall (excludes corridors, restrooms, and identified storage/trash areas) to be 429,464 square feet. Staff has further calculated the additional building square footage of proposed Cub Food (difference from HomePlace to Cub Food finished size) to be 13,500 s.f., for a total of 442,964 square feet. Under Section 1005.01.D.d., shopping centers are required to provide off-street parking at a ratio of 5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area. Under this calculation and based on current square footage calculations, Har Mar Mall is required to provide 2,215 off-street parking spaces. The proposed site plan indicates a total of 2,218 off-street parking spaces upon completion of specific parking lot improvements, meeting the Code requirements for parking. 4.0 STAFF RECOMMENDATION 4.1 Based on the findings outlined in Section 3.1 through 3.5 of this report, staff recommends approval of the request for vacation of utility and drainage easements located on the southeast side of the former HomePlace facility in Har Mar Mall, 2100 Snelling Avenue and recommends acceptance of the new replacement utility easement. 5.0 PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION 5.1 On January 12,2000, the Roseville Planning Commission held a public hearing regarding the utility vacation request. No specific concern or opposition concerning the utility easement vacation was indicated during the public hearing. The Commission voted (5 - 0) to recommend approval of the utility vacation request as indicated in the findings outlined in Section 3.1 to 3.5 ofthis report.