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PLANNING REPORT CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1415-83 Willmus Properties Inc. Southwest Corner of Centennial Drive and Hamline Avenue Approval of Special Use Permit for Planned Unit Development (PUD) Division of a Lot 1. Willmus Properties Inc. proposes to remove the existing service station at the southwest corner of Centennial Drive and Hamline Avenue and construct a new two story, 24,080 square foot office building. As part of the development, they propose to substantially remodel the existing parking arrangement, providing access and parking space for the new"office structure and substantially simplifying the parking design in the process. We have reviewed the preliminary plans with the applicant on several occassions with their consultants, and feel that the new proposal will be a substantial improvement aesthetically to the area, and with a resultant improvement to the parking arrangement as well. 2. The land is zoned Shopping Center District which has a setback requirement of 60 feet contiguous to public rights -of -way where business districts are across the street and 100 feet where property is zoned residential. The Shopping Center District requirements, however, provide for a plan to be submitted for city approval varying from these requirements, subject to city approval. .' 3. Attached are copies of the proposed site plan, building elevations, and landscape plan for the revised :site. You will notice that the building is proposed to be setback 30 feet from the public right-of-way along Centennial Drive and 40 feet from the existing right-of-way along Hamline Avenue. An additional ten feet of right-of-way is being dedicated as part of this proposal for the -entire frontage for the shopping center and the office site along Hantline Avenue. This 30 foot setback will be landscaped on the office site and would appear to offer a very attractive setting for the new office building as viewed from the public streets. 4. You will notice that the proposed lot division goes through the parking lot in a manner similar to that which divides the various lots, for instance in the Rosedale Center properties. In this case, then, there are no setbacks for parking for this newly created lot line. This may be approved (as was the case in the Rosedale Subdivision) by ne Planning Commission and Council by approval of the Special Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development. Such approval means that the structures, access drives,