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- "' PLANNING REPORT DA TE: 6 June 1990 CASE N.JMBER: 4.PPLlCANT: 20,7 LOCA TlON: North Heights Hardware 2611 North Rice St."eel ACTION REQUESTED: Sgecial Use Permit, Outdoor Display PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. BACKq:R!XJND This item was continued at the May 2nd Planning Commiasion :nesting. The ApplecaRt \VaS instructed to return with a site plan that il1COl"pOi'1lted some modifications and that rea1isticaUy reflected the amount of outdoor display area thet tt-.is i)usiOO8S win occupy. There was aJso some dieou.ion of the need to provide handicapped access to this builtfing, although not as a condition of this approva:" We have met with Mr. Schwalbach and have reviewed a revised site plan. He hQ8 agrew to maintain a mininun of 2.-1/2 feet of deaf- sidewalk 8CI"088 the front of the building. The new ~, also ilhts\t.:&.. an outdoar storage and display ante approximately 10 feet wide by 58 feet toog. .xtsnding into the nortl1 side of the parIdng lot. 1'his 81'88 will be prifnarily used for the storage of lawn mowers that ere in for repair, while the seT'vice ana is being U88d.. This di8ptay area wUI conform with the setback of the building that W88 approved throug?l tho i8&il&nee of a variance in 1984. The inaeaae in size pI'GPOO8d fm- this area win also require that the parkin;l lot ba re-stJ"iped. ., Mr. SchW8lbach has agreed to have the partdng lot I'fHtripad. HIt has also agread to establish 8 handicapped parking 8paat near the front of the building with the required signaga. When we met with ~'. Schwalbach we diSCQ898d both the ~ granted for severa! V.i8C1Ce8 in 1984 and the fact that he plans to add another significant expansion to tl1i8 building in the near future. Through the review of the )984 plans, we were ab:.e to provide Mr. Schwalbach with a professione!ly preparod site plan for his uee in applying for this pem.it. We also noted that the 1984 plans called for a landsc:sped area to be installed along Rice St.rP.et. That landscaping was never c-omplated. "1 , As you know, it hu not been the City Council's intent to require builoings and sites to be brought into compliance with code requirements. when special permits fer outdoor diapla)' are requested. We did tell Mr. SchWIIlbech that the City would wery mud'\ like to 888 the landscaping as proposed in 1984, installed and that the owner .... mede 3 commitment to do so when the City approved svvwal significant v8ri~ to allow this buaine8S to expand. He leid that they would be willing to do the landscaping.