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Planning Commission Agenda Packet 10-14-1986AGENDA REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, October 14, 1986 - 6:30 p.m. !embers: Richard Carlson, Richard Martie, Joyce Dowling, Marren Smith, Barbara Koropchak. 6:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order. 6:32 p.m. 2. Approval of Minutes of the Regular Meeting Held September 9, 1986. 6:34 p.m. 3. Public Hearing - A conditional use request to allow a cold storage building to be built in a PZ -M (Performance Zone Mixed) zone. Applicant. Ruff Auto Parte. 6:44 p.m. 4. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow more than the maximum wall sign square footage. Applicants, Marn and Marie Flicker. 7:04 p.m. 6. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow construction of an attached garage within the front yard setback requirement. Applicant, Del Emmel. 7:14 p.m. 6. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow placement of a pylon sign within the pylon sign setback requirements. Applicant, Raindance Partnership. 7:24 p.m. 7. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow placement of a driveway curb cut within 40 feet of a public right- of-way. Applicant, Suburban Gas. 7:34 p.m. 8. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow placement of a driveway curb cut within 40 foot of another driveway curb cut. Applicant, Winkelman Building Corporation. Additional Information Itame 7:44 p.m. 1. Sketch plan review, Planned Unit Developments Lionel Kull and Steve Upgren, Applicants. 7:89 p.m. 2. Ken Cotton, Ordinance Amendment, Council Approved; Conditional Use Request, Council approved with conditions. 8:01 p.m. 3. Bet the next tentative data for the Monticello Planning Commiesion meeting for Wednesday, November 12, 1986, 7:30 p.m. 6:02 p.m. 4. Adjournment. 7 `> PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE ABOV8 DUE TO MEETING PRIOR TO CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MINUTES V�. REGULAR MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, September 9, 1986 - 8:05 p.m. Members Present: Richard Carlson, Warren Smith, Barbara Koropchak. Members Absent: Richard Martie, Joyce Dowling. Staff Present: Gary Anderson. 1. The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Richard Carlson at 8:15 p.m. 2. Potion by Warren Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak. to approve the August 12, 1986, Planning Commission meeting minutes. Motion carried unanimously. 3. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow lose than the minimum number of off-street parking spaces. Applicant, Monticello VPH. Mr. George Holthaus, representing the Monticello VFW Club, was present to propose the VFW -a request to be allowed less than the minimum off-street parking spaces. Discussion centered around the number of off-street parking spaces that ware available upon the site in relationship to the total number of spaces required. Zoning Administrator Anderson indicated to Planning Commission members that this afternoon a count of the marked parking spaces was taken, with the total number of parking spaces marked on site totaling 95 spaces, with the total number of spaces required being 104 spaces, therefore needing a 9 parking space variance. Zoning Administrator Anderson also indicated that they would be losing two of those parking spaces for the proposed addition to the VFW building, therefore needing an 11 parking space variance. Chairperson Richard Carlson questioned as to what the Monticello VFW Club does when their parking lot is full and what they do for additional parking spaces. Zoning Admintotrator Anderson indicated to Chairperson Richard Carlson and the rest of the Planning Commission members that the Monticello VFW does have a verbal agreement with the Burger King Restaurant Corporation owned by the Dolphin Corporation for overflow parking to occur on the southwest .root corner of their existing Burger King lot. Therefore. motion by Barbara Koropchak, seconded by Warren Smith, to approve the variance request to allow an 11 parking space variance requoot with 104 parking spaces required of which 93 parking spaces will be provided. Motion carried unanimously. 4. Public Hearing - A variance request to allow a curb cut driveway acceno within 40 feet of an existing curb cut driveway access. variance request to allow a driveway to be constructed within the 5 -toot green area requirement. Applicant, Winkelman Building Corporation. With no one representing the applicant, Winkelman Building Corporation, -1- 9 Planning Commission Minutes - 9/9/86 Zoning Administrator Anderson indicated to Planning Commission members Winkelman Building Corporation's variance request. The first variance request would be for parking as noted on the site plan to allow a driveway curb cut within 40 feet of the existing south driveway entrance/ exit of the Security Federal parking lot. The proposed new entrance to the Ben Franklin Building would be within 25 feet of the existing Security Federal entrance/exit to their parking lot. An explanation of where the Security Federal parking lot would be in relationship to their proposed driveway entrance was given, and Commission members didn't see any problem with that variance request. The second variance request dealt with being allowed to construct a driveway curb cut within the 40 -foot setback requirement from a street right-of-way. Winkelman Building Corporation is proposing to be allowed to be within 30 feet of the street right-of-way with the proposed driveway curb cut. The problem that the City staff saw with this variance request is once the semi -truck tractor leaves the Ban Franklin property to go west bound on West 4th Street, once it comes out of the Ben Franklin property out onto 4th Street, the semi -truck tractor trailer will not clear the driveway and be within its own driving lane before coming to the stop sign at 4th Street and Walnut Street. Commission ---bare felt that the applicant should adhere to the mini—, 40 -foot setback requirement from a street right -of -ray. The third variance requeat dealt with being allowed to construct the driveway right up to the north side of the existing sidewalk, which is right on the property line. Commission members didn't nee a problem with being allowed to construct the driveway within the 5 -foot green area requirement. Also a discussion was centered on the proposed layout of the driveway coming in with no radii on the wast aide of the oast entrance, nor on the east side of the west exit to the Bon Franklin alto. Zoning Administrator Anderson indicated that staff would like to see the sharp pointe of those curbs be installed with a 5 -foot radius. Motion by Warron Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to approve the variance request to allow a drivoway to be constructed within the 5 -foot green area requirement; approve the southeast driveway entrance curb cut to be within 40 feet of an existing driveway curb cut; and deny the variance request to allow a southwest exit driveway curb cut to be within 40 foot of a street right-of-way and would like the applicant to redraw the plan showing the southwest exit driveway curb cut to be at a minimum of 40 feet from the street right-of-way, and also to show a 5 -foot radius on the wast side of the southeast entrance, and on the east side of the southwest exit a 5 -toot radius be put into the driveway curb cut. The motion carred unanimously. EPM Planning Commission Minutes - 9/9/86 14- 5. Public Hearing - A request to amend the Monticello City Ordinance to allow as a conditional use a daycare center in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. A conditional use request to allow a daycare center in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. Applicant. Ken Catton. Mr. Ken Catton was present to propose his ordinance amendment to allow as a conditional use a daycare canter in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. Mr. Catton indicated his othar projects that he has worked with in other daycare centers in communities in Minnesota have consisted of Rochester, St. Cloud, Eagan, and Plymouth. In these four communities, these daycare centers have been constructed in some type of a business zone. Motion by Warren Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to approve consideration of amending the ordinance to allow a daycare center in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. The motion carried unanimously. Discussion then centered around the proposed conditions to the proposed ordinance amendment to allow a daycare center in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. Planning Commission member Barbara Koropchak had some problems with the proposed number five item in the conditions for a daycare center. She would like to see that no other daycare canter located within a radius of one mile be stricken as a condition to the proposed daycare center conditional use. General consensus of the other two Planning Commission members present was that item number five should be stricken as a condition within the proposed ordinance amendment. Discussion then centered around the proposed condition number two and which would be more appropriate, using the 75 sq. ft. per child or the 60 eq. ft. per child as an indicator an to how much outdoor fenced in play area would be required. Barbara Kcropchak questioned come of the varbage in condition number two and felt that number seven in the Brooklyn Center ordinance better addressed as a condition to be included in as number two rather than the proposed condition number two as submitted by City staff. Condition number two was, therefore, changed to read: *An outdoor recreational facility shall be appropriately separated from the parking lot and driving areas by a wood fence not loan than d feat in height, or Council approved substitute, and shall be located continuous to the daycare facility, and Shall not be located in any yard abutting a major thoroughfare, and shall not have an impervious surface for more than one-half of the playground area, and shall extend at least 60 foot from the wall of the building or to an adjacent property line, whichever is leas, or shall be bound on not more than two aides by perking and driving arose. A minimum size of the outside recreational facility shall be 2,000 eq -ft. or in the alternative, 75 sq.ft. par child at licensed capacity, whichever the greater figure." Planning Commission member Barbara Koropchak also questioned under condition numbor three that the Department of Public welfare is no longer in existence, and condition number three shall toad, "The regulations and coMitions of the Minnesota Department of Human Services and Department of Health, public welfare Manual 113130 as adopted, amended arid/or changed, aro satisfactorily met." -3- Planning Commission Minutes - 9/9/86 We would like the following changes made to item number four to state as follows: "A written indication of preliminary, pending, or final license approval from the regulatory agencies is supplied to the City of Monticello." Motion by Warren Saith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to approve the conditions as previously stated in the conditional use aublottar (O] Daycare centers. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Catton respected the Planning Commission members' consideration of his conditional use request, that hie request is merely due to the time frame he is in to be allowed to get under construction as soon as approval would be obtained from the City Council. Planning Commission members felt uncomfortable with considering Mr. Catton's conditional use request in that there is not an ordinance amendment in place and published allowing a daycare canter in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. Planning Commission members also recognized the time frame that Mr. Catton was in and the actual intent of a daycare center request. Planning Commission members had no problem with a daycare center itself, but granting approval of a conditional use request with an ordinance amendment not in place left them in a very uncomfortable position. Motion by Warren Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to deny the conditional use request to allow a daycare center in a B-3 (Highway Business) Zone. The reason for denial is without going through the process as stated within the Monticello City Ordinance, and also approving an ordinance d amendment which is not in place and not entered in as a public reading an of this date. The motion carried unanimously. Additional Information Items 1. It was passed an to Planning Commission members that Mr. Mike Rohor's final plat of his proposed townhouse subdivision was approved and also the preliminary plat for the layout, but as of tonight's meeting there has been no final recording of his plat submitted to tho City staff as of yet and no response has boon hoard from Mr. Rshor in regards to when he would be starting his proposed townhouse plat. ]. Motion by warren Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to not the next tentative date for the Monticallo Planning Commission meeting for Wednesday, October 19, 1986, 7:30 p.m. 3. Motion by Warren Smith, seconded by Barbara Koropchak, to adjourn the meeting. The meeting adjourned at 9:91 p.m. Respectfully submitted, 14W 4&W Gary Afidersa 1 Zoning Administrator -1- 11 Planning Commission Agenda - 10/14/86 3. Public Rearing - A conditional use request to allow a cold storage building to be built in a PZ -M Zone. Applicant, Ruff Auto Parte. (G.A.) A. REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND: Ruff Auto Parts in proposing to construct another storage building on its present site. This proposed storage building would allow the complete tear down of an existing wrecked automobile brought into this building, with all the usable parte taken off and placed in other buildings within the Ruff Auto complex. Any unusable parts will be taken across the road and run through the crushing machine. As one may note in driving by the Ruff Auto Parte facility, the company has undergone its own and extensive clean up of its site, getting rid of vehicles that have been around for a while by sending them through the crushing machine. one may conaidor the typo of buoincco they are in as a rather terrible disrepair site. with the different changes in the automotive industry, we have seen changes take place at the Ruff Auto site also. The applicants can adhere further to that at the Tuesday night Planning Commission meeting. B. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS: 1. Approve the conditional use request to allow a storage building to be built in a PZ -M Zona. 2. Deny the conditional use request to allow a storage building to be built in a PZ -M Zone. C. STAFF RF.COIDIENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the conditional use request to allow construction of this storage building on the existing Ruff Auto Parts site. Staff has gone over with the owners their future plans of their facility and of the type of business they are in, with the staff feeling very comfortable with the intentions of the applicant. D. SUPPORTING DATA; Copy of the location of the conditional use request; Copy of the existing Ruff Auto Parts site codex. QC A conditional use request to Allow a cold storage building to be built in a PZ -M Zone. Ruff Auto Parts - A , Elm SfRee�) ros • �s ' Rgw,tabk wRecks sa f iWes yd u' jows t 74e Aerw Sbop sa' 64' tot ios• M OFFICE W AHA / ya' 'IG PAMI se' �t 7s' i i 90' 1 i— _ Tine Vol W YO' H planning Commission Agenda - 10/14/86 4. Public Bearing - A variance request to allow more than the maximum wall sign square footage. Applicants, Marn and Marie Flicker. (G.A.) A. REFERENCE AND BACRCRODND: Flicker T.V. and Appliance is before you again asking to put up a new product identification sign. The current building has gone through two previous variance requests, one on February 20, 1979, and the other on August 11, 1981. Copies of those minutes are attached in the supplement. The point the City staff would like to stress at this time is that we fail to see the hardship for being allowed additional pylon sign square footage. The whole intent of the sign ordinance in that the businesses be allowed to place wall signs on their building with the square footage not being so excessive that the signs would take up a good share of the square footage of the building allowed for wall signs. In this case, staff feels very strongly that they see no hardship in this case. B. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS: 1. Approve the variance request to allow more wall sign square footage. 2. Deny the variance request to allow more wall sign square footage. C. STAFF RECONKENDATION: Staff recommends denial of the variance request to allow additional wall sign square footage. The reason for denial is the staff falls to see the hardship in this case presented by the applicant. The Mole intent of the sign ordinance is to regulate the maximum amount of wall alga square footage allowed for a building. D. SUPPORTING DATA: Copy of the location of the variance request; Copy of the site plan for the variance requests Copies of the minutes of the Planning Commission and City Council meetings hold on February 20, 1979, and August 11, 1981. -2- A variance request to alloy more • `++ `:�/G/7JC _ _ � � \ than the maximum wall sign equate otaga. Marie Flicker. �� tea/ • � / / / / � : it . �// '�� `\\ �/ 1 `�� ''' / •�/� , � % � .� // /,ter' 94 a \ \ 5•IA�11. �0 / 1 �� 4) FLICKER'S TV & APPLIANCE MONTICELLO. MINNESOTA 55362 1 �r a N:- ack.1s, F L C s I I T --I —'- I I 1� -IuA : a S ► L LC ilii►,, �I,��►��4 9 y FLICKER'S N & APPLIANCE MONTICELLO. MINNESOTA 55362 r s rr�c�n�rC s' 7 v Ll III r yI � ��,► o hack I f�. o c (4)