Correspondence 1985-1989 Dahlgren

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r Office Hour 2 • February 26, March 5 and 12, 1986 March 18, 1986 • 3• Murlo wski, 633-6944 John Murlowski was in to discuss the an office/warehouse which he desires to�build incthe�nCityr He inquired about such a structure being built on a 2.78 acre site owned by Williams Pipeline Compan� a� the south- west corner of County Road C-2 and New Highway 8. This property has multi-family housing contiguous to the west, and is shown in the Comprehensive Plan as high density, multi-family housing. We suggested that rezoning this to industrial would be difficult, and inappropriate. We noted, however, that Williams Pipeline has 7.05 acres available to the south of Old Highway 8, and another 12.5 acre parcel availab�.e south of County Road C-2 and �asterly of 01d Highway 8. 4. Franke, 636-6400 Bill Franke, attorney, was in with Tic� Nelsea� from Jeff Nielsen's company, along with Mike Fowler and John Blumen- trip, both of Fowler Hanley Ar�hitectural Firm. The�r were in to meet with the staff on March 3, tio review revised plans for which the kaa,sic intention was to increase the capacit�v of th� parking in the vicinity of the 120 room � proposed hotel at the northeast corner of the site. The staff had previousl� expressed concern abaut the inader�uacy of parking in this area. They consequ�ntly moved the nartherly most structure further to the west, which results in a much improved acc�ss and parking �rrangement. They now have 772 parking spaces, of which 89 are in the underground garage. The square footage of the total development has bee� increased to 203,400 square feet, plus 120 motel room�. This results in a theoretical shortage of 68 cars, based on the five spaces per thousand required for office structures. �'hus, �he plan now has inct�Qased the building area (and taxable potential), anc' slightly decreased the are not concerned with Lhis, inasmuch as we have�found in recent surveys in work we have done in the southwest quadrant of Highway 100 and Highway 12 (in St. Louis Park) that wh�re large concentrations of offices are present (as in the case of Park Dale Center), the actual requ�ired was found to be 3.5 s aces Parking paxking for office space in thisp per thousand. The �er thousand, which is what is required�inSbothr�Stm�tLouis Park and Golden Valley. Thus, we feel that the current proposal will work, and constitute a more intensive development in the overal�. City's interest. �