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WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM NO. 4 MEMORANDUM Community Development Dept. 490-2236 Date: January 8, 1996 To: Dennis Welsch From: Mike Falk\ff Subject: Sketch Plan Review - Southeast comer of County Road C and Fairview Avenue. The property in the southeast comer of County Road C and Fairview Avenue is 2.2 acres in size and is zoned R-1 Single Family. The western portion of the property has a narrow frontage on Fairview Avenue. The middle of the property is considered wetland and on the eastern portion of the property is a legal n:m-conforrning cold storage building. For some time, the owners of the property have been trying to market this property to commercial or industrial users. The City of Roseville is interested in acquiring the property for storm drainage purposes and have had the property appraised and made an offer to the owners. At this point, the City's offer and the owners expectations are a ways apart. In the meantime, Belaire Collectibles, a Roseville business has expressed an interest in purchasing the western portion of this property to build an approximate 4,000 square foot specialized office for their business. They have indicated that they are mostly a mail order business with a minimum amount of retail walk-in traffic that would have little impact on the traffic on Fairview Avenue. the site plan they have submitted for sketch plan review, indicates approximately 40 parking spaces on the proposed site plan. This parking is proposed to take place over an existing wetland area. Belair has indicated that because there are single family residential homes to the north, the image of the building they would propose would be residential in scale and design. Before staff can process an application for rezoning to planned unit development, a policy decision about City acquisition of this parcel ofland is necessary. In part, the purpose for City acquisition of the property is to provide additional storm water ponding capacity and, in part, to eliminate the need for access onto Fairview Avenue so close to County Road C. If the City decides not to purchase the property, this use appears to be one of the least intense commercial uses that could go on this comer. In any case, any proposed change in the zoning classification should be done through the planned unit development process, carefully defining any use for this property.