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CASE NUMBER: June 7. 1978 tf-. .!- - Page Three occurred on the same evening, the neighborhood people were only aware that the home office site might be a possibility. We feel that the use of this land for a corporate home office location provides an excellent solution to the use of the bulk of the remainder of the land and will provide an excellent means for a successful transition in land use that will be very compatible to the single family nei9hborhood to the east of Pascal Avenue. Site planning for this development, which we understand will begin immediately. will, of course, stress the aesthetic relationship to the ponding area in the northeast part of the property, the careful handling of parking and access and egress, and provision for a well landscaped, bermed, transition strip along Pascal Avenue to protect the residential area to the east. 3. With the committments to Toy City and the Com-Ten people, there remains a proposed 1.77 acre site for a restaurant in the far northwest corner of. the tract and a slightly larger tract west of the service road,. and north of County Road C for which no specific use is proposed at this time. 4. The applicants are requesting rezoning of the Toy City tract only at this point, leaving the rest of the zone intact until specific developments are proposed for each site. They are requesting approval of the preliminary plat, including the 15 acre site for Com-Ten at this time. Also requested is approval of the site plan for the Toy City development as required in the 8-18 District. We have examined this site plan and find it to be very acceptable as adjusted. Large scale copies of the site plans, landscape design, and buildings will be presented by the applicant at the hearings. . 5. The Toy City people are requesting a variance to the size of the pylon sign allowed for their site. The 8-18 Zone allows a 70 square foot pylon sign 25 feet high. This restrictive sign size was adopted in the B-18 District for use in the 8-18 District north of Highway 36 because of the residential development immediately across Highway 36 from that area (Old Gluek Farm 1). In the case of the site in question, Toy City, the land is across Snelling Avenue from the Slawik Midway Ford site which is zoned B-3. The B-2, B-3, or Shopping Center District would allow a pylon sign of 175 square feet and 30 feet high. The applicant is requesting a sign of 174.square feet, with a height of 30 feet. Under these circumst~nces, we feel this is a reasonable proposal. The signs placed on the building conform to the sign ordinance without any adjustment for the fact that they are set back a substantially greater distance from Snelling Avenue. SUMMARY 1. In the overall, we suggest that the proposed land uses. of which the Com-Ten headquarters site is the principal ingredient will .be well adapted to the site and solve for us a difficult land use problem in relationship to the existing single family homes in the area. We feel the proposed land division, alignment for the service road, and rezoning proposed at this time are appropriate and practica.l for the developer, the City, and the neighbors. It is noteworthy that the Com-Ten people are considering an I.~,.J':~ _ '-