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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 3 February 1988 CASE NUMBER: 1820 APPLICANT: NIPS, Inc. LOCATION: West of Snelling Avenue, Northerly of Skillman (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Amendment of Comprehensive Plan, Rezoning from R-2 and B-1 to R-3A, and B-1 to B-39 Special Use Permit for Planned Urit, Development, and Preliminary Plat PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. This property consists of 4.59 acres and includes ',he existing McDonaid's site and the Kentucky Fried Chicken site directly to the north. The entire parcel has been owned by Mr. Boots Halverson, the founder and owner of the McDonald's franchise in Roseville. He recently added an existing duplex lot to the northwest corner of the site fronting on Eldridge Avenue. 2. Attached is a copy of the zoning map indicating the existing zoning of the land. You will notice that approximately half of the property is zoned B-1 (the westerly half) and the easterly half- is zoned B-3. The Preliminary Plat proposed divides the land into three parcels indicated as lots 1, 2, and 3. Lot 1 's proposed to be rezoned from R-2 and B-1 to R-3A. At one time apartments were permitted c a Special Use in the B-1 District, but that is no longer the case. You will note that the properties to the north and to the south of the property in question are now zoned B-1 and are developed for apartment use. Therefore, the proposed zoning is consistent with the existing pattern. The portion of Lot 2 (occupied by the McDonald's structure) will be rezoned from B-1 to B-3. This lot will consist of 1.73 acres. Lot 3 is occupied by the Kentucky Fried Chicken building and is already zoned B-3. 3. The owner of the property has E buy and sell arrangeniant with the McDonald's folks. He must be offer to McDonald's the first right of refusal in the event of a sale. TI -refore, he proposes not to sell the property, but to develop the land it multi -family housing purposes utilizing the existing duplex lot from ig on Eldridge as access to the property. The staff has reviewed the preliminary plans for this project on several occasions and has encouraged the developers to utilize the property for some constructive use rather than leave it vacant. The basic two options were to develop an office building on the site, or to develop the land for multi -family purposes.