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PF15-001_AttachmentC Pizza Lucé Roseville Request for Variance Approval Narrative Pizza Lucé restaurants (a Minnesota company), is seeking approval from the City of Roseville Variance Board for (2) exceptions to the current city code. The project is located at 2851 Snelling Avenue on the former Countryside Family Restaurant site. The parcel is a long, narrow site which has been targeted by re-development for many years. The new Pizza Lucé building will have a closer street presence along Snelling Avenue and an architecturally appealing design allowing patrons to enjoy indoor or outdoor dining. Request 1: Due to the long, narrow configuration of the parcel, watershed district storm water storage requirements, and current parking requirements, the development needs to remove 17 existing trees on the property and will replace with 28 new trees, per the commercial landscape requirements. In addition, Pizza Lucé works with the timber reclamation company Wood From The Hood, and will contract with them to recover usable logs from this site for re-use on other Pizza Lucé locations. Other factors include existing underground utility easements which prohibit the planting of trees as well as existing, adjacent trees which would be impacted if we plant in their existing canopy. Due to the current site constraints noted, we are unable to fit the 145 mitigation inches on this parcel and ask for a variance to this hardship. Request 2: The building is characterized by a wood-framed, peaked roof. Glazing/opening requirements are based both on lineal feet and square footage. With the greater façade square footage due to the peaked roof, current requirements for square footage of glazing/openings would require glass to be installed into the upper portion of the Snelling Avenue (East) façade. This excess glass would require Pizza Lucé staff to continuously maintain shades to keep sun glare out of customer tables and the kitchen area and lend a less desired aesthetic to the building. We are seeking a variance to eliminate this upper glass section along the East side. The lineal feet of glazing/openings would continue to be met, but the glazing/openings based on square footage would end up deficient.