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I ~.."""~ V,yiJ,r _ t I'~ VN~r~'~ fit' ~~ ~~.$IZI! ~ 2~~ (~,,4~I~1-~ ~, ~p llG!-~~55!{N, Vl/ti-~ ~ ~~,fia 1 PLANNING FILE 08-001 2 Request by McGough Construction, in cooperation with property owner PIK 3 Terminal, Inc., for a REZONING AND GENERAL CONCEPT PLANNED UNIT 4 DEVELOPMENT at 2680 Prior Avenue (PIK Terminal) for the purpose of 5 redeveloping into professional office, laboratory, and parking structures. 6 Chair Bakeman opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 08-001. 7 City Planner Thomas Paschke corrected the requested action; noting that the 8 Preliminary Plat was not under consideration at this time. 9 Mr. Paschke reviewed the request of McGough Development, seeking approval of a 10 REZONING AND GENERAL CONCEPT PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT to 1 1 redevelop the approximately 26-acre PIK Terminal property into a corporate campus 12 consisting of two (2) office buildings; asingle-story laboratory; two (2) parking 13 structures and other site improvements. Specifically, the proposal would be 14 designed/developed as a corporate campus and include two (2) six-story office 15 buildings totaling 475,000 square feet; aone-story, 100,000 square foot laboratory; a 16 three-story, 530 vehicle parking structure; afour-story, 903 vehicle parking structure; 17 five (5) surface parking lots totaling 577 stalls, three (3) storm water management 18 areas/ponds, and other site improvements/amenities. 19 Mr. Paschke reviewed various components; possible and alternative scenarios; 20 comments of the Public Works Department and the Planning Commission that would 21 be incorporated into the staff report to the City Council; and current status of the traffic 22 study review and impacts to the overall system and direct impacts to the Twin Lakes 23 Redevelopment area; as well as a short-term traffic mitigation study attempting to 24 identify costs of infrastructure to accommodate redevelopment of the area and cost 25 allocations based on those items addressed in the AUAR. Mr. Paschke noted that 26 staff would be making a presentation to the City Council on those findings at their 27 February 11, 2008 meeting. 28 Mr. Paschke advised that to-date, staff's review had been directed toward the general 29 concept plan; discussing areas that may require additional discussion or study with 30 developer (i.e., pedestrian connections; design and planning principles); and that 31 tonight, questions and comments of Commissioners and the public were being 32 sought, with requested continuance of the Hearing to the March Planning Commission 33 meeting, in order for staff to provide responses and further refinement to the project, 34 incorporating. 35 Discussion included Section 6.3 of the staff report and the analysis to-date through 36 the AUAR as a guiding environmental document and what mitigations may be 37 necessary, which will be reported by staff to the Commission in their next report; 38 estimated number of employees projected for the corporate campus at 2,000; the 39 history of McGough construction, a Roseville firm, as a quality firm with quality 40 projects; and if and how this development would drive additional and adjacent 41 developments. 42 Further discussion included the proximity to the lake and park of this proposed 43 development; phasing of additional development in the area as driven by the market, 44 and amount of interest being expressed by developers for the area; and how to 45 ensure a balance of housing to commercial in today's marketplace. 46 Applicant, Mark Fabel, Project Manager, McGough Development, 8170 33`d 47 Avenue S, Bloomington, MN 48 Mr. Fabel introduced project team members present at tonight's meeting to respond to 49 questions of the Commission and public, including Joe Samuel, RLK; Bake Baker, 50 McGough's in-house architect; and Erin Lysen, Project Manager on the Twin Lakes 51 project. Mr. Fabel noted that McGough Construction, as part of the Twin Lakes