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. PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: �11 3 February 1988 Solar Wash, Rodney Brannon Northerly of Larpenteur Avenue and Easterly of Hamline Avenue (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Approval of '.Lot Division, Rezoning From R-6 to B-1, . and Special Use Permit for Parking PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. You are all aware of the recent construction of the "Solar Wash", a car wash and office facility at 1315 West Larpenteur, developed by Dorothy and Rodney Brannon. Though the car wash and office structure (the offices are on the second floor) have the required parking capacity, the owners and operators (the Brannon's) feel that additional space to the rear of the structure for parking and the maneuvering of vehicles entering the parking bays would be helpful to their operation. Therefore, they have made an arrangement with Richard Coverdale, the owner of the property to the north, to acquire the southerly 68 feet of his land, except for the westerly 25 feet. This has been laid out so as to accommodate 15 car space, and has been done in accordance with the City codes relating to curbing, size, spacing, and access. 2. The land to the north of the car wash site (the property in question) is zoned R-61 contains 722680 square feet of land, and is occupied by a 12 unit residential structure. The R-6 zone requires 4,000 square feet, therefore, the required land area for the structure is equal to 48,000 square feet. 3. The southerly portion of the Coverdale site appears to be nonessential to the occupancy of the land with a 12 unit building and, obviously, exceeds the land area requirements for the structure as built. Therefore, the application proposes the division of this piece of land containing 13,439 square feet and the rezoning of the land to B-1. This is a more restricted business zone with uses limited principally to offices and similar services. A recent amendment to the zoning ordinance allows for the use of zoned land to be utilized to serve a B-3 purpose (the land to the south is zoned B-3) by a Special Use Permit. Thus, the applicants are applying for the rezoning o; the land and the approval of a Special Use Permit for parking purposes in accordance with plans submitted. 4. Attached is a sketch showing the property the zoning pattern in the area. You will wer,t of the original Coverdale property is most lot of this strip of land zoned R-4 feet of frontage and a depth of 180 feet, in question as it relates to note that the land to the zoned R-4. The southerly is vacant. The lot has 93 equalling 162740 square feet.