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Office Planning Hours <br />March 17, 1987 <br />3. Miller, 377-2165 <br />Jim Miller, of Albitz Design Company, <br />Bruce <br />Bednarek (935-6120) representing First was MinnesotathFederal <br />Savings and Loan to review their expansion plan for their <br />site west of Lexington Avenue (directly. south of Paster's new <br />shopping center). First Minnesota has <br />the old <br />Kogler Music Museum and residence that Occupied sadrelatively <br />landlocked parcel directly west of the original First <br />Minnesota Federal site. The house and old concrete block <br />museum has been torn down, and Jim ­Miller has <br />Proposed site plan expanding the prepared a <br />develOging a new drive -up facility. parking capability and <br />Given this additional space, the layout works extremely well, <br />and will provide for a drive-u <br />wide with the tellers operatin finilaty up to five lanes <br />se <br />viewing the front of the customers' cars versustsas <br />usually is done thesidestructure <br />The original site of the First Minnesota building is zoned <br />2, and the Kogler site is zoned B-1. B- <br />appear to be an option of rezoning the landufromtBeletowBulld <br />b <br />within which the banking institution is a permitted use <br />the land could be rezoned to B-2, where the use is 'a or <br />permitted. The advantage to using the Bre also <br />more restrictive district, and requires sites that it is a <br />which may be of more comf ort to the contiguousresidentialowners to the north. ial <br />Reviewing the preliminary site <br />Pay special attention to the transition lan, I noequested that they <br />area to the north (northwest actually)the residential <br />directly which is a parking lot serving an apartment <br />nd to he west <br />build- <br />ing. There appears to be adequate .space to Rio this we <br />ll. <br />Mr. Jani.sch discussed drainage concerns inasmuch as th <br />addi- <br />tion to the site appears lower than the original s• e te <br />east. An engineering solution is to be site is the <br />sewer invert data supplied b the Cit evolved with storm <br />that a difficult y y• The bottom line is <br />Problem house and building <br />and First Minnesota can now 11 efficiently <br />been removed, <br />facility. y expand their <br />