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• • Planning Office Hours August 20, 1986 Page 2 The Lincoln Companies have submitted application for amendment to the land use plan, rezoning (to B-4), and approval of Special Use Permit for site plan approval, to be brought to the Planning Commission for its September meeting. 3. Vannase, 631-1711 Leonard Vannase was in with Jim Hall, from Planning and Design Associates, and Derrick Young, landscape architect, to review their preliminary plans for the development of a Price Savers site on the Twin City Freight Line property west of 35W and east of Long Lake Road. We noted our previous review of the City's concerns regarding this location, and specific details of their site plan. Their current submission is in response to those concerns. We, therefore, did not nor� did they desire us to go through the specific elements of our previously expressed concerns. Their proposal consists o� a 107,000 square foot building, with 750 car parking capacity. One hundred seventy of these stalls are on the upper level on the south edge of the property. They do not have finished topography at this point so, therefore, the exact nature of the terrain is not discernible at this point. They noted that surveys are being done to pin down the � location of the easements, particularly the power line ease- ment which is a"floating" easement one hundred feet in width. They propose to retain the billboard on the site, and utilize it for a pylon sign, or they may tear it down and construct a new pylon sign. � The proposal has major problems from a site planning standpoint. The rear oi the building is oriented toward Long Lake Road, where f acilities for s9.x semitruck loading bays are proposede Thus, the site is really turned 180 degrees from what it ought to be. This is due on this site, to the existence of the easements for the power �.ines and fuel lines through the site. The "tire shop", is to be located on the east end of the site, with its overhead doors accessing direct to the �rontage road contiguous to the building. The access drive past the building on the north side, from Long Lake Road to the major parking area, is only twenty-four feet wide with cars parked on both sides. This is highly undesirable. A major portion of the parking to the south (170 cars) is elevated with a circuitous route to this area from the building exit, maki.ng for difficult accommodations for carts hauling material to the parking area.