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a <br />PLANNING REPORT <br />DATE: <br />CASE NUMBER: <br />APPLICANT: <br />LOCATION: <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: <br />2 October 1985 <br />1619-85 <br />Solar Wash <br />North of <br />Easterly of <br />sketch) <br />Larpenteur, <br />Hamline (see <br />Approval of Special Permit <br />for a Car Wash <br />1. The property in question is a .8 acre site, located <br />immediately west of the storm sewer retention pond on the <br />north side of Larpenteur Avenue. The site was formerly <br />occupied by Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips and is currently <br />unused. The property is zoned B-3 and allows a car wash <br />facility by special use permit. <br />2. The applicants are the Brannon family who operate two self <br />service car washes, one of which is in Fridley and the other <br />is in St. Louis Park. As is the case in St. Louis Park, <br />they propose to build a structure with a car wash facility <br />on the first floor and an office building on the second <br />floor. The structure and its facilities are similar to that <br />which has been built in St. Louis Park located north of the <br />Knollwood Shopping Center, north of Trunk Highway 7. <br />3. Attached is a three page statement submitted by the <br />applicant describing their proposal, followed by seven <br />sheets of drawings illustrating the site plan, floor plans, <br />elevations, and landscape plan. <br />4. The proposed development plans have been reviewed by the <br />City Staff with the Brannons on a number of occasions. The <br />principle problem with the development of the site is a <br />steep bank descending to the ponding area on the east side <br />on the property. The applicants here propose to construct a <br />retaining wall for which they have submitted some design <br />concepts as suggested by their consulting engineers. The <br />exact detail of this retaining wall has not been determined <br />but any development approval could include a condition <br />subject to engineering staff approval of the retaining wall <br />design. <br />5. On the west side of the property, a variance was previously <br />approved for the site so as to allow development of the <br />driveway and parking area contiguous to the existing curb <br />that separates the property to the west from the subject <br />