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Additionally, Section 1009.03D.1-3 of the City Code specifies that three specific criteria must be 46 satisfied in order to approve a proposed (IU): 47 INTERIM USE 1. The proposed use will not impose additional costs on the public if it is necessary for the 48 public to take the property in the future. This is generally intended to ensure that a particular 49 interim use will not make the site costly to clean up if the City were to acquire the property 50 for some purpose in the future. In this case, the Planning Division understands that the 51 concrete and asphalt by-product once recycled will be similar to class-5 gravel and can be 52 used as a sub-base for future development on the subject site or trucked to other locations. 53 Both the crushing of the foundations and parking areas and the temporary stockpiling of the 54 gravel material would pose limited environmental risk to the City if it were to acquire the 55 site; therefore the Planning Division staff believes that the IU would not cause the City to 56 incur additional costs if the City had to take possession of the property in the future.. 57 2. The proposed use will not create an excessive burden on parks, streets, and other public 58 facilities.Temporary crushing and by-product stockpiling on the subject site would not 59 create an excessive burden on parks of other public facilities. It is, in fact, a recycling 60 technique that would reduce the burden on public streets in the immediate and general area. 61 Information provided by the applicant’s contractor indicates that removing the debris would 62 result in an estimated 1,400 truckloads or 2,800 trips into and out of the site, creating a 63 constant hum of construction activity for an extended period of time. To have the material 64 crushed on site would significantly reduce this activity. As such, the Division believes that 65 the proposed IU would not constitute an excessive burden on streets, parks, or other 66 facilities, especially given the former use as a motor freight terminal. 67 3. The proposed use will not be injurious to the surrounding neighborhood or otherwise harm 68 the public health, safety, and general welfare. The Planning Division has concluded that the 69 two main concerns of a crushing operation are noise and dust. The noise levels of the 70 equipment used in the proposed crushing operation generally fall within the range of typical 71 heavy equipment used in construction activity. Also, during crushing operation, spray bars 72 on the crusher add water to the resultant pile to assist in crust formation. 73 For context on the potential impacts, the City Planner, in 2006, videotaped the crushing 74 operation at the former Ramsey County Public Works Facility at Rice and I-694, which lied 75 across the street from a number of single family residential homes and a residential care 76 facility. The outcome of this taping and observation was that dust from crushing was 77 negligible; noise from the crushing equipment was audible, but not loud or prominent; 78 freeway noise at certain locations on the site was more prevalent that the crushing operation; 79 and the site was generally well managed by the contractor. The Rice and I-694 site is similar 80 to the PIK property in that a major freeway is in close proximity, which produces audible 81 noise that may reduce the noise from the crushing operation. Planning staff would also offer 82 that the crushing operation will follow Minnesota Pollution Control Agency standards for 83 non-metallic processing plants. Further, in support of limited dust during crushing, fractured 84 concrete particles tend to form a crust once they are stockpiled, which minimized the amount 85 of dust generated. 86 Based on the information above, the distance from Langton Lake and the nearest residential 87 property, and the Response Action Plan and Construction Contingency Plan, the Planning 88 Division believes that the IU will not be injurious to the surrounding neighborhood or 89 otherwise harm the public health, safety, and general welfare. 90 SC TAFF OMMENT 91 PF16-015_RPCA_071316 Page 3 of 5