Planning Office Hours 1989-1991 Dahlgren

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� � C ROSEVILLE PLANNING OFFICE HOURS 8`7/91 2 Mr. Duffy and Mr. Howe are on a tight time schedule and were anxious to keep the process moving, and wanted to get some sort of decision at the August 14 Planning Commission meeting. Since correcting some of the important dimensions might alter the project considerably, we suggested they revise the plans and come back to meet with Staff next Wednesday and appear for another sketch plan review that night at the August 14 meeting. Mr. Howe also mentioned that he had received a call from someone at Ramsey County inquiring about the property as a possible site for a County home fo�� unwed mothers should this project not go ahead. 2• Steve Zeece, L-Z Mfg. We met Mr. Zeece on site at his bLsiness on Rice Street and Center Street to discuss what might be done to imprave the appearance of the site. The property's side yard is on Center Street, which is a main entrance to McCarrons Lake Park. There are numerous vehicles and pieces of equipment in various states of repair stored openly on site behind a cyclone fence that is in disrepair. The southeastern corner of the site consists of poor wet soils and the fence has settled in places. Security for the business is a major concern. Mr. Zeece pointed out several places where vandals had cut ��o the fence in order to steal equipment from the site. There were underground gasoline tanks on site at ane time, which were recently removed and found not to be leaking, but nevertheless there are monitoring wells at two �.ocations on the property and some soils on site were found ta be contamin�ated with gasoline. We discussed waXs to screen the views from Center Street, and agreed that a reasonab�e solut�on would involve repairing the cyclane fence anci planting Bostc�n ivy or Virginia Creeper to cover it. Althaugh this type of vegetation would take 3 to 5 years to get establish.ed, adjacent to the park it might be preferable to a slatted cyclone fence or ev�n a tall wooden fence. The ivy would need to be protected at the bottam of the fence from mowing by a mulch bed and sturdy edging. On the Rice Street side, Mr. Zeece is in the �rocess af painting the existinc� cyclone fence and agreed that he would keep it in repair and maintain its appearance and would store only new equipment in the front part of the site in an orderly fashion. We also noted that the site is ro�aqhly half paved and hal� gravel, which washes a good deal of sand onto Center Street when it rains. Mr. Zeece contends that the poor soils on site make it impossible to pave, but Karl Keel felt i� could be paved without much difficulty.