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Planning Commission Minutes May 8, 1996 service station and convenience store at 2163 Snelling Avenue North to be continued to the June 12, 1996, meeting. 5(b) Planning File 2817: An ordinance amending the City of Roseville, City Code by amending Chapters 1002 and 1103 to add minimum roadway standards, to be continued to the June 12, 1996, meeting. 5(c) Planning File 2812: An ordinance amending the City of Roseville, City Code by providing a public hearing process for zoning-related measures by amending Section 1015.03, to be continued to the June 12, 1996, meeting. MOTION: Member Harms moved, seconded by Member Cunningham to approve the Consent Agenda and to move Planning Files 2811, 2817, and 2812 to the June 12, 1996, meeting. Roll Call: Ayes: Nayes: Thein, Rhody, Wilke, Cunningham, Harms None 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 6(a) Planning File 2813: Bruce Kath request for a rezoning, conditional use permit, preliminary and final plat, and comprehensive plan amendment at 1912 Lexington Avenue to construct a gas station/convenience store/car wash. This item was continued from the March Planning Commission meeting. Vice Chairperson Katie Harms opened the public hearing and requested Michael Falk, City Planner, to provide a background report. Mike Falk provided a background history of the buildings, showed a video of the site, and explained the surrounding uses. He listed the changes from the original request and reviewed the 6 conditional use permit criteria of City Code, Chapter 1013.01. Glen Van Wormer, Traffic Consultant for the city, explained the traffic impact on the site. He estimated 1650 trips per day into or out of the site would be the equivalent of 800 customers a day. There would be 110 trips in a peak hour between 5 and 6 p.m. Seventy-five percent of the traffic will enter from Lexington Avenue. Fifteen percent will enter from Roselawn Avenue east of the project, and 10 percent from the west. Van Wormer estimated that 66 percent of the convenience store traffic is already on the street. He stated there would be two impacts: 1) new trips to the site estimated at 14 trips per day on Roselawn and 30 trips per day on Lexington in a peak hour; and 2) the impact on the driveways as it relates to turning movements. He estimated there would be very little traffic on Autumn or Summer or other streets because ofthe new project. The new project would not create traffic backups or congestion in his 2