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PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: 7 May 1986 1655 Don Poupard Northeast Corner of Hamline and Larpenteur Avenues Special Use Permit for Automobile Repair PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: This site has 190 feet of frontage on Larpenteur Avenue and a depth of 143 feet on Hamline Avenue. An additional 10 feet of dedication is required on Hamline which is proposed in the application. The site was formerly occupied by a Texaco Station for many years and was later converted to a Precision Tune operation. The old service station will be torn down and replaced with a new structure to more efficient! utilize the property and provide space for a Tires Plus facility, as well as Precision Tune. 2. The applicant is Don Poupard, an investor from Eden Prairie, who has now sold the property to the Austin Franklin Financial Corporation, of 1115 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. later to construct a 5,148 square foot building which will beh occupied p by p the Tires Plus facility and the Precision Tune shop. Each businesswill OCCUPY approximately half of the structure which will be constructed of architectural block (the same on four sides of the building) with a mansard roof parapet extending about 5 feet above the flat roof so as to screen the mechanical equipment. 3. The property is zoned 8-3 for which a special use permit is required for automobile repair. The applicant has also applied for a variance to parking requirements but that variance is not necessary. The ordinance requires 4 parking spaces plus 3 spaces per repair bay. There being 8 bays, the parking requirement is 28 spaces. The parking provided on the site equals 29 spaces. 4. The building placement and handling of in all respects to ordinance requirements. ar Attached are copiesconform of f the site plan, grading plan, building the lande plan, elevations of the structure, and phas. nce reviewed thethe draina'egplan was submitted, the engineering staff a new catch basin in the driveway off proposal.La penteur h Avenuelan ind,cates The applicants agree to replace that catch basin with two catch basins in the interior of the parking area, it being a more reasonable, mutually acceptable solution. The applicants have agreed to construct the required sidewalks on both Hamline and Larpenteur (not shown in the plans). Parking and driveways shall be curbed, as required.