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x to accommodate a Drug Emporium in the Rosedale Crossings Center. The purpose of this meeting was to review letters that had been received from both the City Attorney's office and Tom Erlich from � Tanurb regarding the Planning Commission's action tabling the request for special use permit amendment. 3. Dave Ebertowski, 489-4336 Dave was in, with another business owner, to discuss city ordinance standards regarding signage in this location. They explained that the owners of several of the businesses within the center had approached the center's managers about the need to improve signage. There is a very large roof sign that is a nonconforming sign at the center. They recognize that this sign would be need to be eliminated, but wanted to talk about the maximum size available for a pylon sign and the setback requirements that would govern the location of such a sign. We provided them with a copy of the section of the Code that related to signage in the B-2 District and also the revised section of the Code that dealt with the standards for ground signs. They also wanted to know what the process was for recyuesting a var�.ance, and we explained that procedure and the information that they would need to be able to provide the City to demonstrate their hardship if one were to exis�t. 4. Bob Nelson, 464-8878 Mr. Nelson and two other individuals we�e in regarding a� potential use for the Great Dane Transport si�e on the north side of County Road C, west of Fairview Avenue. Mr. Alelson is with National School Bus Service, which is tk�e company that owns and operates the Roseville circulator and other para-transit and transit services within the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. They are currently pursuing ax� offer to the Great Dane owners for the reuse of this property as the corporate headquarters for the National School IIus Service facilities and for the storage of a numb�r of veha.cles. We provided them with a copy of the z�ew design standards, which .include the requirements for the surfacing of all of�-street parking areas ar�d the installafi:ion of concrete curb and cutter. This standard, in particular, came as a surprise to them and had not been anticipated in the development of their cost estimates to date. The� indicated that they had retained someone to prepare an as-built survey of the site and then they would prepare a site pJ.an and the c�ther neces�ary plans for submission. we encouraged them to d� so anc� then to schedule another meeting with us during a Wednesday office hours s�ssion �to review their preliminary plans. Although we will not know for certain until they return wi�h their preliminary plans, z am concerned that it has been their expectation that they can use this site as is without making improvements to it. It is clearly a noncon�orming use and the zoning ordinance is quite clear in requiring a special use permit fo� the storage of buses, therefore, we have the authority to �