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r . ;. w"..,:. <br />` J <br />2 February 1963 <br />PLANNING REPORT <br />CASE NU;dBER: <br />APPLI CAt'T : <br />LOCAT?OV: <br />ACTiOt� F:i>QUiSSTED: <br />PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: <br />� <br />1415-83 <br />Willmus Properties Inc. <br />Southwest Corner of Centennial Drive and <br />liaml.ine Avenue <br />��FProvdl of Special Use Permit for <br />Planned Unit Development iPUD) <br />Division of a Lot <br />1. Willmus Properties Inc. proposes to remove the existing service station <br />at the southwest corner of Centennial Drive and Hamline Avenue and construct <br />a new two story, 24,080 square foot office building. As part of the <br />development, they propose to substantially remodel the existing parking <br />arrangement, providing access and parking �pace for the new'off.ice <br />structure and substantially simplifying the parking design in the process. <br />We have reviewed the preliminary plans with the applicant on several <br />occassions with their consultants, and feel that the new proposal will be <br />a substantial improvement aesthetically to the area, and with a resultant <br />improvement to theparking arrangement as well. <br />2. The land :.S zoned Shopping Center District which hds d setbdCk TequlTement Of <br />60 feet contiguous to public rights-of-way where business districts are <br />across the street and 100 feet where property is zoned residential. -The <br />Shopping Center District requirements, however, provide for a plan to be <br />submitted for city approval va:.ying from these requirements, subject to <br />city approval. <br />3, Attached are copies of the proposed site plan, building elevations, and <br />landscape plan for the revised site. You will notice that the building is <br />proposed to be setback 30 feet from the public right-of-way along <br />Centennial Drive and 40 feet from the existing right-of-way along Hdmlfne <br />Avenue. An additional ten feet of right-of-way is being dedicated as part <br />of this proposal for the entire frontage for the shopping center and the <br />office site alon2 Hamline Avenue. This 30 foot setback will be landscaped <br />on the office site and would appear to offer a very attractive setting for <br />the new office building as viewed from the public streets. <br />4. 'iou will notice titat the proposed lot division goes through the parking <br />lot in a manner similar to that Wh_ch divides the various lots, for ln''�anCe <br />in the Rosedale Center properties. In this case, then, there are no <br />seti�acks for parking for this newly created lot line. This may be approved <br />(as was the case in the Rosedale Subdivision) by the Planning Commission <br />and Council by approval of the Special Use Permit for a Planned Unit <br />Development. Such approval means that the structures, dCCess dTlVes, <br />