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Mk;H0RANDUM DATE: March 29, 1990 TO: Steve Sarkozy FROM: Howard Dahlgren SUBJECT: PLANNING OFFICE HOURS, March 21, 1990 to Nelson (484-9027) Bob Nelson is an architect who operates out of his home at 2589 Fisk in Roseville, and he was in to review a proposed site plan for an old gas station site at the southwest corner of South Owasso and Rice Street. The site is now used as a muffler shop, and the owner proposes to expand the building to more than twice its original size. The problem here is the proposed expansion plan as drawn projects the building northward making it impossible to replan the parking area so as to conform to the required 15 foot setbacks. The existing parking on this site (a corner site) is right up to the right-of-way line, both to the north and the east. We showed Mr. Nelson how the building could be expanded by building it to the west and south, thereby leaving adequate space for 22 parking spaces with no variances required. for the building or the parking. We suggested that if the site care in fact be developed in this way without variances, it may well be very difficult to purposely expand the building so that variances are required. He is going to discuss these options with his client. 2. Gregory (332-5544) Arnie Gregory of the Can -American organization, developer of the Reiling property north of City Hall, was in with Tom Hurley, who has an organization called Preferred Properties. He is the proposed developer for the small retail center at the southeast corner of the Can -Am site. Jack Boxell, architect, was also there with the building and preliminary site plans for the development. We reviewed with these gentlemen, the points we discussed last week with staff regarding the proposed development. These points and their proposed disposition are as follows: 1. They agreed to install the parking in the northeast corner of the site, assuming the future addition of the additional 5,000 sq. feet on the north end of the building. This will eliminate the need to tear up the curbing and rebuild it at a later point in time. We noted that we have no authority to authorize a staging of this development, but if the parking lot were built in its entirety, the last phase of the structure could (( be added later.