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ROSEVILLE PLANNING OFFICE HOURS 3/13/91 Page 2 • transport to a processing facility. The facility would consist of a small building with phone and electricity, but may not need sewer or water. It would also have a canopy of some sort to protect patrons from the elements as they are using the facility. Because the program is just starting and may only be a temporary solution, it was suggested they might apply under the Interim Use ordinance. The facility would be open 40 hours a week, including some Saturday hours, and would replace the one-day programs operated up to now. It is not known exactly how much traffic the site might generate, but the County's best guess is about 8,000 cars a year, concentrated most likely on Saturdays during warm weather months (home clean-up times). Hennepin County has been operating a similar facility since last August. Issues surrounding such a facility obviously include fumes, spill control, fire safety, and protection of storm water and ground water. While the mention of "hazardous waste" may strike a fearful chord, the materials involved are ones that most of us keep by the gallon for years in our garages, basements, and kitchen cabinets. The County is just beginning its investigation of potential sites and will be conducting a phase I environmental audit of the Kent • Street site starting this week. Mr. Schiferl and Mr.Wozniak will get back to us with any new developments. Before accepting such a facility, the City would obviously want to do its homework about the operations, transport, safeguards, and ultimate disposition of the materials involved, as well as traffic, screening, site aesthetics, etc. Another option the County is considering is to turn over the program to a private vendor whose job would be to collect and process the HHW materials, instead of a publicly-run facility on a publicly-owned site. This option might attract a bid from Metro Recovery 5ystems, a Roseville business already operating on Rose Place and equipped to deal with such materials. 3. Ron Krank, KKE Architects (339-4200) Bill Bissonett, Bissonett Realty (895-9422) Calico Corners in the Fairdale Shoppes wants to expand at their present location by adding a small addition to the building. The addition would be 1,800 square feet on the south side of the building, facing Highway 36. The addition is not large enough to trigger a full site plan review, and the minor rearrangement of the parking lot appears not to reduce total parking below the minimum required, according to the cursory review we did with the information available. There was a question about the use of the partial basement below Pearle Vision, and whether that might affect • total parking numbers. They will be back with more details.